The percentage of NJDOT's capital program going to road capacity expansion has significantly increased in recent years. Source - Tri-State Transportation Campaign |
Tri-State even gave a run-down of the bicycle projects that will receive State funding and those that will go without. Most notable, is the lack of funding for the New Brunswick Bikeway which would connect the College Avenue and Cook/Douglas Campuses as well as the New Brunswick Train Station. While this project is expensive (it would also repave every road the bikeway is on), it also has the potential to see an extreme amount of use being that it would have provided a bicycling option for tens of thousands of college students, as well as faculty, staff and the other local residents. The project is also 20 years in the making (YES! 20 years!), so it is extremely frustrating to see it left unfunded by the State. It is not clear how the lack of State funding will effect this project or the others.
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