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Weinberg Questions NJ Transit Budget, Advocates for Bus Electrification & Hudson-Bergen Light Rail

  Weinberg Questions NJ Transit Budget, Advocates for Bus Electrification & Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Weinberg Questions NJ Transit Budget, Advocates for Bus Electrification & Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Senate Majority Leader asks about NJ Transit Board involvement in budget, capital-to-operating transfers, status of Customer Advocate Trenton – Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) issued the following statement and series of questions prior to Thursday’s Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing on the NJ Transit budget, saying that: “NJ Transit continues to face unique challenges arising from the pandemic, but there are still vital long-term concerns to address. Hopefully NJ transit officials will answer these questions during the committee meeting. “First is the question of governance. The Legislature passed a NJ Transit reform law in 2018, which was meant to address the structural problems with the corporation. To avoid the cronyism and waste of the Chris

Is there a greater chance of dying by being hit by an NJ Transit and Coach USA bus than by COVID-19?

 Is there a greater chance of dying by being hit by an NJ Transit and Coach USA bus than by COVID-19?   CLAIM: There is a greater chance of dying in a bus collision than by COVID-19. “You’ve got more chance of dying from being hit by an NJ Transit and Coach USA deadly bus driver than you are of dying from ‘covid-19.” These bus driver is recklessly operating the bus claiming countless pedestrian lives in New Jersey. Sadly to say, that a pedestrian is being hit every day but it's not being reported to the State Police. According to the former NJ Transit Chief Safety Compliance Todd Barretta states that about once every two weeks minimum that a pedestrian is being killed.  A much-shared  Facebook post  included the claim:   "May anyone explain to me why the government are still trying to brainwash us.. putting us in another lockdown for the ‘safety of our health’ against a virus that has a 99.7% survival rate.... We have a vaccine for flu not at all an adequate vaccine, so your n