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.TOP NEWS
New Jersey leaders announce infrastructure projects to aid regional port operations
Transport Topics
New Jersey officials recently announced a series of infrastructure projects meant to support operations for port facilities and the vehicles that serve them.
Gov. Phil Murphy, New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey representatives and other elected leaders announced the projects, which are meant to improve routes that facilitate regional port operations, on Nov. 17. The Port of New York and New Jersey supports 500,000 jobs and generates billions of dollars in economic activity every year, according to Murphy’s office.
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.NJSME NEWS
NJSME welcomes new members
NJSME
NJSME would like to welcome its newest members:
Richard Czerkanski
Remington & Vernick Engineers
Joseph Ragusa
Remington & Vernick Engineers
Edward Vernick
Remington & Vernick Engineers
Michael Dzinbeck
CME Associates
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Available online sessions
NJSME
Now you can earn CEUs anytime, anywhere. NJSME is excited to offer general membership meeting sessions as online courses! Browse our available sessions below:
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.STATE OF NEW JERSEY NEWS
New Jersey approves $87 million for library construction
WKXW-FM
State lawmakers recently unanimously approved spending $87.4 million on 38 public library construction projects in 16 New Jersey counties.
The comfortable margin by which the spending passed belies the lengthy journey the spending has taken — from its introduction in the Legislature nearly six years ago to approval in a 2017 referendum to a drawn-out process of getting rules for the program in place.
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Port Authority of NY/NJ proposes $1.2 billion cut to construction spending
Construction Dive
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has revealed a slimmed-down budget for 2021, which includes a reduction in capital construction spending. The $2.4 billion earmarked for construction spending in 2021 is $1.2 billion less than the contemplated amount for the year in the authority’s 10-year capital plan.
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How spending on New Jersey's transportation projects this year quietly went from $2 billion to $2.6 billion
NJ Spotlight News
Despite revenue losses triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Phil Murphy's administration has turbocharged spending on transportation projects this year. To do so, fine print in the state budget was quietly rewritten with help from lawmakers to reach deeper into New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund for extra dollars.
Murphy and fellow Democrats who control the Legislature added more than half a billion dollars to the line item for transportation projects for the current fiscal year with a little-noticed tweak that they approved in September, according to budget documents.
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New York governor says Hudson River tunnel could be fixed, not replaced; New Jersey not convinced
NJBIZ
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted a report over the weekend that suggested the aging Hudson River tunnels could be rehabilitated, rather than the ambitious replacement project — drawing the ire of New Jersey officials and the state’s Congressional delegation.
The study released Monday by London Bridge Associates suggested that they could be rehabilitated at a much lower cost than the $11 billion price tag for a set of two new tunnels.
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New Jersey: London Bridge is falling down
Railway Age
Several "project stakeholders" in New Jersey's passenger rail network — Gov. Phil Murphy, NJ Transit and others — have expressed "strong reservations" about the feasibility of proposals in an independent report prepared by London Bridge Associates Ltd. and released Nov. 23 by the Gateway Program Development Corporation on the Hudson Tunnel Project portion of the Gateway Program. Basically, they are saying that one new tunnel must be constructed and placed in service prior to shutdown and rehab of one of the two existing, 110-year-old tunnels. Interestingly, two of the stakeholders are GDC officials.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
2021 construction forecast: A slow road to recovery
Engineering News-Record
As the country continues to deal with the economic and health crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, forecasters are cautiously optimistic for the future but warn that meaningful growth is still several months away.
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The impact of COVID-19 on STEM competitions
Engineering.com
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of the academic experience. Apart from thousands of students being deprived of in-person interactions as they try to adapt to virtual learning, 2020 has also witnessed a complete overhaul of competitions celebrating science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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