Gas Tax

Gas taxes in New Jersey will probably be 23 cents a gallon higher by this time next week. The governor and legislative leaders agreed to that as well as cuts in sales and estate taxes.

An assemblyman says the state should borrow $3.2 billion for two years of roadwork, then try again to hike the gas tax in 2018. Stop punting, say critics.

Roadwork shuttered will cost extra once it’s eventually restarted, and an Assembly panel says the state should pay for that, not municipalities and counties.

Gov. Chris Christie met separately this week with both of the Legislature’s top Democrats, as the impasse that has shuttered state-funded transportation construction enters its third month.

Christie has agreed to support an increase in the gas tax if it’s coupled with a decrease in some other tax.

This is Christie’s second executive order this summer dealing with the Transportation Trust Fund, which is set to run out of money at the end of this month.

Road work in New Jersey remains at a standstill until a funding plan is approved.

With Oregon now allowing limited self-service, New Jersey remains the only state in which pumping your own gas is a crime. And if Steve Sweeney has his way, that won't change -- even if it could help alleviate the transportation funding crisis.

Given transportation funding uncertainly, the pension amendment is a "dangerous, wrong approach," says the Senate president. NJEA's leader calls him dishonest.

An impasse over finding new revenue for the Transportation Trust Fund could cause a "domino effect" that hurts the state's economy, officials say.