(The following appeared on the New Jersey News Room website on March 24, 2011.)
NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie Thursday proposed spending $3.5 billion in highway and mass transit improvements in fiscal year 2011-12, an allocation that would represent the first year of a five-year Transportation Capital Plan.
The governor sees the plan as helping to put New Jersey on the path toward fiscal health by prioritizing projects, decreasing borrowing and increasing pay-as-you-go cash funding.
The plan outlines spending priorities totaling $2.3 billion for the state Department of Transportation and nearly $1.2 billion for NJ Transit.
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