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  • Transportation for Everyone: Designing Safe, Sustainable Options for Women

    Transportation for Everyone: Designing Safe, Sustainable Options for Women

    March 17, 2023 : 0 comments

    Last year, New Jersey Future explored how women and gender nonconforming people face disproportionate obstacles when accessing public transit, biking, or walking as forms of transportation. We found that 65% of women-identifying people have experienced street harassment in their lives and that 99% of the NYC public transit riders who reported sexual harassment on the subway identified as female.

  • Metuchen’s Downtown Revitalization: An Award-Winning Catalyst for Smart Growth

    Metuchen’s Downtown Revitalization: An Award-Winning Catalyst for Smart Growth

    March 16, 2023 : 0 comments

    “The Woodmont Metro at Metuchen Station was a catalyst for further redevelopment in downtown Metuchen… Having residents living downtown has resulted in a remarkable growth of restaurants, making downtown Metuchen a highly popular regional dining destination. New retail and service businesses have also opened creating a vibrant, active downtown,” explains Jay Muldoon, Director of Special Projects with the Borough of Metuchen.

  • New Jersey Future (NJF) at the White House

    New Jersey Future (NJF) at the White House

    February 6, 2023 : 0 comments

    On January 27, 2023, New Jersey Future’s very own Deandrah Cameron—policy manager and backbone staff for Lead-Free NJ and the Jersey Water Works’ Lead in Drinking Water task force—represented NJF and the state of New Jersey at the White House Summit on Accelerating Lead Pipe Replacement, part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan.

  • Helping NJ Drive Less: The Need to Dedicate Funding to Transit and Safe Streets

    Helping NJ Drive Less: The Need to Dedicate Funding to Transit and Safe Streets

    January 31, 2023 : 0 comments

    Electric vehicles are great, but they won’t reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector fast enough, nor will they do anything to alleviate congestion. This past October, the United Nations published the Emissions Gap Report 2022, declaring that an important action for the transportation sector is to “integrate land use and transportation planning to prioritize public transit over private automobiles.”

  • Transit-Oriented Development is Pedestrian-Oriented Development

    Transit-Oriented Development is Pedestrian-Oriented Development

    January 30, 2023 : 0 comments

    Despite being the most densely populated state in the country with over 150 train station towns, New Jersey is not a safe place for pedestrians of any age. In our effort to reduce car dependency, increase pedestrian safety, and encourage placemaking that serves the public, NJ ended 2022 with several announcements designating funds for advancing pedestrian and bicycle safety and transit-oriented development (TOD), indicating that the administration recognizes the importance of creating and fostering transportation options besides driving.

  • New NJDEP Watershed Improvement Plan Requirement and What This Means for Municipalities

    New NJDEP Watershed Improvement Plan Requirement and What This Means for Municipalities

    January 4, 2023 : 0 comments

    In our highly developed state, upgrading and retrofitting New Jersey’s stormwater infrastructure and reducing impervious cover is a key way to address nonpoint source pollution. It is estimated that up to 60% of the State’s existing water pollution is attributable to stormwater and nonpoint sources of pollution.

  • NJDEP Finalizes Water Infrastructure Investment Priorities for 2023

    NJDEP Finalizes Water Infrastructure Investment Priorities for 2023

    November 29, 2022 : 0 comments

    All New Jerseyans deserve to drink clean water, to avoid flooding and sewage backups in their homes and neighborhoods, and to pay affordable water and sewer charges. Every single one. Unfortunately, we’re not there yet.

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