AAA: For too long, New Jersey motorists’ safety has been jeopardized due to an underfunded Transportation Trust Fund (TTF), that resulted in patch work repairs and a fraction of the work necessary to keep our roadways safe and efficient.
Now it seems that our roadways, and potentially our safety, have become a bargaining chip, despite the fact that there is bipartisan consensus to establish a dedicated and sustainable funding source paid for by the users of our roadways.
The current shutdown not only increases our motorists delays and commutes, but it also forces them to continue on unsafe road conditions day in and day out.
It’s time to address this crisis and deal with the issue at hand. The TTF needs to be replenished and current construction jobs must be resumed to ensure that our deteriorating roadways are repaired, efficiently and effectively.
AAA urges lawmakers to begin a special session dedicated to fixing the TTF crisis as soon as possible, to address this growing critical concern
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so is AAA advocating for the $0.23 gas tax? Who’s side are they on?
Looks like they want the gas tax increase.
They need to eliminate the waste and fraud first.
I will even pump my own gas
One of the benefits of living in NJ is cheap gas, looks like that is going away.
Remember it is NOT $.23 per gallon it is 12.5% of the cost of a gallon of gas. That means the higher the gas goes the higher the tax goes.
This is the lie they want us to believe, keep calling them applying pressure stop the gas hike. If the sales tax cut is equal to the gas tax hike then tell them to dedicate the $.01 to the transportation trust fund and stop picking our pockets!!
Time to vote these crooks out.