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Phil Murphy

Governor Phil Murphy, as he says, “grew up in a family that was middle class on a good day,” the youngest of four children with only one parent who graduated high school. His upbringing – where religion, a strong work ethic, education, and civic awareness were pillars of family life – shaped his values, his priorities, and the leader he is.

Infrastructure And Transit

  • Provided record subsidies to NJ TRANSIT and spared commuters from fare hikes for three consecutive years
  • Secured funding for the Portal North Bridge (PNB) from the Federal Transit Administration to advance the project to the engineering phase; total economic output in New Jersey is estimated to be $3 billion dollars, supporting approximately 15,000 full time equivalent (FTE) job-years of direct, indirect, and induced employment, including 7,900 FTE job-years of direct employment from construction
  • Broke ground on the $600 million project of replacing the 112-year old Raritan River Bridge, with 18 additional key projects currently underway
  • Dedicated $2.3 billion in capital projects, not including the PNB project, which increases to over $4 billion when including all construction work to improve transit in New Jersey
  • Led New Jersey toward full implementation of Positive Train Control, completing 88 percent of federal interim installation in 10 months following only 12 percent completion during the entire 8 years of the previous Administration
  • Unveiled two new transformational plans for NJ Transit: a new 10-year Strategic Plan, NJT2030, as well as a new, five-year Capital Plan that includes more than 100 programs and projects and identifies $17 billion in capital needs
  • Funded and entered early stages of the State’s first electric bus demonstration project in Camden, set to be deployed during the middle of 2021; began planning to launch a similar electric bus pilot in Newark and set NJ Transit on path to be a nationwide leader and to achieve an all-electric fleet by 2040
  • Graduated locomotive engineers at more than twice the rate of the previous Administration; NJ Transit aggressively advanced locomotive engineer hiring and training at unprecedented levels to replenish the roster, graduating the same number of classes in two years as the previous five years combined, bringing the active engineer roster up to 373
  • Enacted Public Private Partnership legislation
  • Increased the number of Municipal Aid awards and reach of the program expanding from 516 awards to 505 municipalities in FY2018 to 545 awards to 542 municipalities in FY2020
  • Appropriated $60 million in funding to support water and sewer infrastructure, including lead service line replacements