A 72-year-old man was struck and killed by an NJ Transit bus Tuesday morning in Newark’s South Ward, authorities said. Raul E. Medina was walking along Clinton Avenue near Astor Street about 9 a.m. when he was hit by the eastbound bus, authorities said. The driver did not apparently know Medina had been hit and the bus was eventually stopped, said acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel Demaio in a statement. Medina, a city resident, was pronounced dead at the scene about a half-hour later, they more
Heading down the Garden State Parkway to the Wildwoods or Cape May, the North Jersey driver’s senses are assaulted, or soothed, by an array of sights. There’s the white-knuckle ride on the nation’s widest motor vehicle span, the 15-lane Driscoll Bridge over the Raritan River. The big crane with an American flag on it. The trip back in time through the Pinelands National Reserve. The towns with unusual names like Little Egg Harbor and Upper Township — Upper What Township? At exit 11 in Cape May County is the most startling sight of all, as out of place as a polar bear in Los Angeles. “People are traveling down the Garden State Parkway for 120 miles and then all of a sudden — traffic light!” said Vicki Clark, president of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, which has an office right next to a light at more
Lanes will be closed and traffic shifted on eastbound Interstate 280 beginning Friday night as crews continue to replace bridge decks over the Whippany River between Parisppany-Troy Hills and East Hanover. Traffic is to be shifted left onto a temporary bridge built in the highway median, state Department of Transportation officials said. About 62,000 vehicles a day use the bridges to cross the Whippany River, officials said. Once the eastbound bridge deck reconstruction is finished at the end of summer, the DOT will shift eastbound traffic onto the newly rebuilt mainline bridge and divert westbound traffic onto the temporary bridge to allow the reconstruction of the westbound bridge to begin, officials more
NJ Transit police will conduct an emergency drill inside the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail tunnel on Sunday. Police will respond to a simulated train incident inside the tube along the Weehawken and Union City border between 9 a.m. and noon. Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service will terminate at Port Imperial Station in Weehawken during Sunday’s drill. Passengers will have to board buses for service between Port Imperial, Bergenline Avenue and Tonnelle Avenue seemore
It would have been a penny-ante crime. But it could have cost Eric Vega his life. The 42-year-old Newark man was walking along an elevated railroad structure near Roseville Avenue in the state’s largest city yesterday morning, looking for wire to steal, transit officials allege. At 4:09 a.m., he raised a pair of bolt cutters and snipped a cable. He got an electric shock and fell 40-feet to the tracks below, NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder said. He survived, but transit officials say this is a cautionary tale. The overhead wire cut by Vega was a “static wire” with just 110 volts running through it, officials said. But the Catenary wire next to it carries 25,000 volts, which powers the trains, and is enough to kill. There have been 24 reported thefts of wire along NJ Transit rail lines this year, Transit Police Chief Christopher Trucillo said, and the incidents more
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