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Unable to Meet Federal Deadline, City Delays $1 Million in Road Repairs
May 25, 2012PATERSON, NJ – More than $1 million in federal funding that was supposed to be used to fix some of Paterson’s w...
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DOT $ For Repaving Five Paterson Streets
May 21, 2012PATERSON, NJ – Five city streets will be repaved using a $489,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Transportat...
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Memorial Day Weekend: Click It or Ticket
May 17, 2012TRENTON – Beginning next week, law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey will be cracking down on unbuckled...
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Stop Signs Proposed for 14th Ave & E. 22nd
May 6, 2012PATERSON, NJ - In response to accidents at the intersection of 14th Avenue and E. 22nd Street, city officials are considering adding s...
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Turnpike Authority Planning E-ZPass Tag Swap
April 26, 2012WOODBRIDGE, NJ - The New Jersey Turnpike Authority will replace hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of aging E-ZPa...
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NJ Transit and Six Flags Offer Deal For Bus Customers
April 25, 2012NEWARK, NJ - NJ TRANSIT and Six Flags are teaming up to make it easy and affordable for thrill-seekers to get to the f...
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City Council Delays Street Cleaning Changes
March 28, 2012PATERSON, NJ – There’s one thing worse than having to wake up early in the morning to move the car for street cleaners. Th...
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Paterson Gets $489,700 in State Money For Local Streets
March 24, 2012PATERSON, NJ - The city will get $489,000 from the New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) for repiars to local stree...
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Changes Proposed for Street Cleaning Schedule
March 7, 2012PATERSON, NJ - The city council is weighing a proposal that would change the times of when parking is banned in certain sections of th...
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Council Takes Detour on One-Way Plan for Clark St.
March 3, 2012PATERSON, NJ - City officials have decided to hold off voting on a proposal to allow only one-traffic on Clark Street betwe...
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Gas Prices Hit Record Levels
March 1, 2012The average price of gasoline - $3.73 a gallon - is the highest on record for this time of year, according to a story on nj...
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Spruce Street Reopens To Traffic
February 23, 2012PATERSON, NJ - Contruction crews have completed the sewer repair project on Spruce Street, allowing traffic to move resume ...
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Traffic Alert: Spruce Street Sewer Project Taking Longer Than Expected
February 13, 2012PATERSON, NJ – Motorists beware: the sewer construction work on Spruce Street that has cre...
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Proposal To Make Clark a One-Way Street
February 11, 2012PATERSON, NJ - City officials are considering converting Clark Street between Ward and Market streets a one-way street. Under the prop...
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Road Construction: Lane Closings on Route 80
February 7, 2012TRENTON, New Jersey Department of Transportation officials on Tuesday announced a series of upcoming lane closur...
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Gas Prices Continue To Rise
February 5, 2012New Jerset motorists can't catch a break. For the nint...
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Drunk Driving Crackdown Planned For Super Bowl Sunday
February 1, 2012PATERSON, NJ - The last time the Giants were in the Super Bowl in 2008, there was record number of drunk driving arrests in...
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Parking Change Proposed For 6th Ward Street
January 30, 2012PATERSON, NJ - The City Council has given preliminary appproval to change in parking patterns on Eagle Avenue, between Main Street and...
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City Considers 15-Minute Parking Zone for 3rd Avenue
January 28, 2012PATERSON, NJ - The city council is considering a proposal to create a 15-minute parking zone near Nina's Bakery and Deli on 3rd Av...
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Spruce Street Will Be Closed Near Wayne Avenue Bridge
January 17, 2012PATERSON, NJ - Starting Thursday, a major sewer repair project will force the closure of Spruce Street, between McBride...
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Public Meeting on Ward Street Train Station
January 14, 2012PATERSON, NJ - The City of Paterson is developing its Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plan for the Ward Street Trai...
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Newark Airport At Bottom of On-Time Rankings
January 13, 2012NEWARK, NJ - Newark Liberty International Airport had the worst on-time ranking among major airports in the first 11 months of 2011, a...
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635 People Killed in Crashes in 2011, Worst Year Since 2007
January 1, 2012TRENTON, NJ – There were more crash-related deaths on New Jersey’s roads in 2011 than any year since 2007, acco...
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Parkway, Turnpike Tolls To Rise January 1
December 22, 2011WOODBRIDGE, NJ - Starting January 1, tolls will rise on the New Jersey Turnpike by an average of 53 percent and on the Garden State Pa...
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$500,000 Statewide DWI Crackdown
December 5, 2011TRENTON – The State launched a stepped-up holiday drunk driving enforcement campaign today under the banner &ldq...