New Jersey

A master plan approved by Rutgers University last year to expand and upgrade the infrastructure of New Jersey’s flagship public higher education institution by 2030 is already taking shape.

The Transportation Department fast-tracked the Hudson Tunnel replacement portion of the $24 billion Gateway Program.

New Jersey’s 23-cent gas tax hike, and its offsetting tax cuts in other areas, will help the state’s current 2017 operating budget at the expense of raising budgetary pressure for 2018 and beyond, according to S&P Global Ratings.

The New Jersey Transit’s fiscal management and safety infrastructure will be scrutinized at New Jersey Senate hearings in the wake of a Sept. 29 Hoboken, N.J. train crash that killed one woman.

The offsetting tax cuts New Jersey lawmakers accepted to get Gov. Chris Christie to accept a gas tax increase for transportation are credit negative for state finances, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Though Atlantic City has violated a term in a $73 million state bridge loan, New Jersey’s Local Finance Board won’t require the struggling city to immediately repay the debt.

Three months after ordering a shutdown of most New Jersey road and transit projects, Republican Gov. Chris Christie and leaders of the legislature’s Democratic majorities forged an agreement to fund the state’s Transportation Trust Fund through a gas tax hike.

Atlantic City is in danger of missing it November debt service payment after it violated a term of a state bridge loan, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is plotting a return to its transportation roots, though unraveling its real estate tangle may be difficult.

A New Jersey appellate court rejected an effort to block a $1.15 billion bond sale to complete the long-stalled American Dream shopping and entertainment development at the Meadowlands.