NJ Transit Issues Plea to Help Ease Meadowlands Mega-Mall Traffic

  • Agency wants private partners to transport 40 million people
  • Even five years is too long a wait, board chairwoman says
The American Dream complex in East Rutherford.Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
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New Jersey Transit issued an urgent appeal for private industry to help transport millions of people annually to a newly opened mega-mall just west of Manhattan.

“It can’t take 10 years,” Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, New Jersey’s transportation commissioner and NJ Transit board chairwoman, told a meeting Thursday of potential private partners in East Rutherford. “Frankly it can’t take five.”