A Monmouth University Poll released today finds that 95 percent of New Jersey residents think it is important to pay to maintain and improve the NJ transportation system, yet almost half of NJ residents don't know the Transportation Trust Fund - the primary source of money paying for road, bridge and transit repairs - is going broke.

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Regional Plan Association, the Bergen County Department of Planning and Economic Development and Maser Consulting today announced the schedule for a series of workshop sessions to garner public input for updating the Bergen Countywide Master Plan, the first such update since 1973.

Regional Plan Association today released the results of a public opinion poll on airports in the New York - New Jersey - Connecticut metropolitan area.  The poll shows that, except for the cost of air travel, the public believes flight delays are the biggest problem plaguing travel, and that many solutions are heavily supported including better rail alternatives, use of Stewart Airport in Orange County for more flights, investment in modern air traffic control systems known as NEXTGEN and redesign of air traffic flight patterns. Read more at www.betterairportsnynj.com.

Regional Plan Association today released a report examining urban parks management in New Jersey. The report was conducted to inform the City of Newark Central Planning Board's recently adopted Master Plan Re-examination Report, which includes the establishment of a park along the Passaic River, through a vision for the new park that is publicly owned, funded and managed by a government entity, and achieves the goal of engaging adjacent landowners  and residents in a stewardship process to complement the contributions of the public sector.

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