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  1. Regional Plan Association, “Spiral of Debt: The Unsustainable Structure of New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund,” March 2010.

  2. Associated Press, “Fund broke after 2016, says New Jersey transportation chief,” NJ 101.5.com, April 2, 2015.

  3. N.J.S.A. 27:1B-20 (2016).

  4. Mark Magyar, Associate Executive Director, New Jersey Senate Democratic Majority Office, “RE: Share of 23-cent gas tax increase to pay off debt service” e-mail message to Martin Robins, July 30, 2016.

  5. 2003 Blue Ribbon Commission members: Chairman Jack Lettiere, commissioner of NJDOT; Vice Chairman Al Koeppe, former president and chief operating officer of PSE&G; Robert A. Altenkirch, president of New Jersey Institute of Technology; Louis Gambaccini , former NJDOT commissioner; Monmouth County Freeholder Harry Larrison Jr.; Barbara Lawrence, executive director of New Jersey Future; Raymond M. Pocino, Laborers’ International Union of North America; John F. Sheridan, Jr., former NJDOT commissioner.

  6. Facing Our Future, “Infrastructure Investments Necessary for Economic Success,” April 2013, figure 10.

  7. Mike Frassinelli, “Scarred by Sandy, NJ Transit to get permanent home to store trains,” The Star- Ledger, January 8, 2014.

  8. New York Metropolitan Transportation Council “Hub-Bound Travel Data 2015,” December 2016, p III-25.

  9. New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, “Hub Bound Travel - Archive”
    New York Metropolitan Transportation Council “Hub-Bound Travel Data 2015,” December 2016, p III-25.

  10. Claude Brodesser-Akner, “Christie says Gateway Tunnel faces no delays despite lack of dollars in Trump budget,” nj.com, January 13, 2017.

  11. U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration and NJ Transit: Hudson Tunnel Project—Draft Environmental Impact Statement, June 30, 2017.

  12. Presentation of Stephen Gardner, executive vice president, NEC Business Development, before the New Jersey Senate Oversight Committee on “The Gateway Program and Hudson Tunnel Project,” August 10, 2015.

  13. Emma Fitzsimmons, “Cost of Hudson Tunnel Project Could Hit Nearly $13 Billion, Report says,” The New York Times, July 6, 2017.

  14. Tom Wright, “A Response to ReThinkNYC,” RPA Lab: Insights from Regional Plan Association, May 16, 2017.

  15. The Port Authority of NY & NJ: Midtown Bus Master Planning Update—Public Session, March 19, 2015.

  16. Ibid.

  17. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, “Trans-Hudson Commuting Capacity Study: Summary Report,” September 2016.

  18. NJ Transit website.

  19. Washington State Department of Transportation, “The Gray Notebook, quarter ending March 31, 2017,” May 2017.

  20. Star-Ledger Editorial Board, “Call it ‘Christie-nomics’ – funding fix not a cure-all for NJ Transit: Editorial,” The Star-Ledger, October 3, 2016.

  21. Federal Transportation Authority, National Transit Database, 2014 Table 1: Operating Funds Applied.

  22. Ibid.

  23. New Jersey Association of Rail Passengers, “Fare Analysis,” 2014

  24. Janna Chernetz, “NJ Transit Lacks Dedicated Funding, and That’s Not Normal,” Tri-State Transportation Campaign blog, December 13, 2016.

  25. Ibid.

  26. Mark J. Magyar, “Analysis: Merger of Cash – Starved NJDOT with Turnpike Authority ‘Cash Cow’ Eyed,” NJ Spotlight, September 29, 2014.

  27. State of New Jersey: Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Summary, p 73. The State of New Jersey: Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Summary, p 71.

  28. State of New Jersey: Budget FY 2003-2004, Department of Transportation Appropriations, B-166.
    State of New Jersey: Budget FY 2017-2018, Department of Transportation Appropriations, B-177.

  29. State of New Jersey: Budget FY 2003-2004, Department of Transportation Appropriations, B-166.
    State of New Jersey: Budget FY 2008-2009, Department of Transportation Appropriations, B-182.
    State of New Jersey: Budget FY 2013-2014, Department of Transportation Appropriations, B-173.
    State of New Jersey: Budget FY 2017-2018, Department of Transportation Appropriations, B-177.

  30. Joseph Kane, Adie Tomer, and Robert Puentes, “How Lyft and Uber can improve transit agency budgets,” Brookings Institution, March 8, 2016.

  31. Joshua Brustein, “Uber and Lyft Want to Replace Public Buses,” Bloomberg News, August 15, 2016.

  32. Governors Highway Safety Association: Autonomous Vehicles Meet Human Drivers: Traffic Safety Issues for States, February 2, 2017.

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