Dive Brief:
- New Jersey has laid out a fiscal 2015 highway and transit spending plan that calls for investing $3.7 billion.
- The capital spending pan is divided into $2.5 billion for the Department of Transportation and $1.2 billion for NJTransit rail projects.
- NJDOT says it will use $1.6 billion in state money and is expecting $1.5 billion in federal funding, with $776 million of the latter going to road work.
Dive Insight:
New Jersey, like all states, has to move ahead and have its plans in place. What's not in place is a way to pump money into the National Highway Fund.