Smart Highway Experience in New Jersey

摘要

I want to talk today about some of the experiences we have had in the New Jersey Department of Transportation in trying to achieve smart growth objectives. We like to call this the "smart highway experience." Let me set New Jersey's experience in context. We are nestled between two large metropolitan centers, New York City and Philadelphia. We have a series of small urban centers in the state, some of which are rebounding now. But we are the state of extensive suburbs. We have first-generation suburbs. We have new suburbs. We have a whole band of suburbs in the central part of the state that some people refer to as the "wealth belt," and some of my examples are from that area.