Month: February 2026

An Unintended Preview of Things to Come If you are old enough to remember what commuting and/or occasional trips to the City were like before Midtown Direct service started on the Morris & Essex (M&E) Line in 1996, you will get to relive the experience this February and March, and probably again in the fall. …

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The new Portal North Bridge located west of Secaucus Station is essentially ready for service, and NJ Transit has plans to start using it.  Cutting over from the existing bridge, which is more than 100 years old, is a complex process that will require single-track operation between Newark Penn Station and Secaucus Junction Station. Although…

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Our state has a lot of Revolutionary history to celebrate this year.  European settlers first landed on the Atlantic coast before moving across the continent, and much of New Jersey was already settled by 1776.  We are between the much younger West Coast, where buildings from the mid1800s are considered very old, and Europe, where…

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As we welcome 2026, we enter the nation’s 250th anniversary year, and for many of us it is way different than we ever expected.  The Coalition’s hometown of Millburn is honoring the nation’s birth with a mural made of wooden tiles painted by nonprofit groups in the municipality.  We were honored to be given a…

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