Moving New Jersey

New Jersey "is a cross between a Sun Belt city that relies on buses and cars because it has no rail system and a place like Long Island or Westchester County, where most commuters depend on cars and trains."

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April 7, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"For the most part, commuting in New Jersey, as in most places in America, is about driving, alone. But more than in any other suburban area, getting to work from New Jersey is also about buses. Between 7 and 10 a.m. each weekday, about 250,000 adults in the state do just what many of their children do each morning: they climb aboard a bus. About one-third of them are bound for New York City... New Jersey Transit, the statewide transportation agency, has 2,028 buses. That is more than Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver or any other city has, except New York and Los Angeles...Still, more than 85 percent of New Jersey commuters set out for work in cars, trucks and vans, adding to the burden on the nation's most heavily used highway system."

Thanks to Eric Arzola

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