Transportation Trust Fund

A year ago, a proposal to hike New Jersey's gasoline tax every single year to pay for road and bridge overhauls would have been considered absurd. However, while some state lawmakers seek an immediate jump of about 23 cents, shore Senator Sam Thoimpson (R-12) thinks that his alternative has a much stronger chance of gaining support.

A plan to hike New Jersey’s gas tax and enact offsetting tax cuts was bashed Wednesday by lawmakers and interest groups from both sides of the political spectrum.

After waiting months for a Transportation Trust Fund replenishment plan, it appears there are now two. One includes a 23-cent a gallon hike in gas taxes.

A Republican senator says a gas-tax hike is a fair way to pay for road work because out-of-state drivers would pay. He says NJ residents should get a tax deduction.

Throw another tax cut into the Transportation Trust Fund mix: an increase in the earned income tax credit paid to the working poor.

Crossing these roads could get you killed.

Neither a proposed estate tax cut nor the near-bankruptcy of the Transportation Trust Fund has convinced New Jersey residents to get behind an increase in the state's gas tax, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton poll out Thursday.

Christie didn't explicitly say how he'd fix the transportation tax fund, or whether he might eventually support a gas tax — instead calling for "fairness" in any proposal.

Would you be in favor of raising the gas tax in New Jersey, if the money only went to replenish the nearly bankrupt Transportation Trust Fund and used to repair the state's crumbling roads and bridges?

Gov. Chris Christie will delivers his budget address Tuesday afternoon at the statehouse, in his first public appearance since coming off of the campaign trail.