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As 2018 comes to a close, NJSME would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of NJSME Update a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 9.
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NJ.com
From May 2: New time-lapse video shows the progress of construction at 99 Hudson Street, where crews are building what will be the tallest building in New Jersey. The 889-foot story tower, courtesy of developer China Overseas America, will include 781 condos on 79 floors when it is completed sometime next year. It is about 50 stories tall now.
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NJ.com
From April 19: Living in Jersey isn't cheap. But how much do we all actually pay in taxes, and how does that stack up against other states? Here's a look from a whole lot of angles.
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By Lucy Wallwork
From May 2:  Woe the fate of the poor urban designer. Forced to wander the streets of our cities, painfully alive to all of the errors of our design history, the sort of things that most of us walk past with barely a glance. In this series of articles, we will be looking at a few of the things we have been getting badly wrong when designing our cities, and that we are now scrambling to rectify. That will mean throwing light on a series of often unglamorous details and the role they play in our environment.
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NJSME
From May 30: On Jan. 16, Gov. Christie signed legislation that modifies the requirements for furnishing performance and maintenance guarantees under the "Municipal Land Use Law." Previously, a municipality could require a developer to post performance guarantees to ensure that certain types of improvements are completed. These included improvements that were not being dedicated to a public entity. Under the new law, a municipality will only be able to require developers to post performance guarantees that cover improvements being dedicated to a public entity.
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NorthJersey
From Aug. 8: NJ Transit plans to shut down the Atlantic City Line for five months starting Sept. 4 and redeploy its personnel and equipment to deal with shortages of both elsewhere in the state.
The plan, which was described in an internal email obtained by the USA Today Network New Jersey, shows the struggles of the statewide public transportation system.
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The Associated Press via Construction Equipment Guide
From April 5: As a multibillion-dollar rail tunnel project languishes amid political squabbling, New Jersey celebrated a smaller infrastructure victory. Officials announced an $18 million grant to rebuild a crumbling highway bridge near the Lincoln Tunnel, the culmination of a three-year process using a federal grant program that would be discontinued under President Donald Trump's proposed budget.
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NJ.com
From June 14: A radical plan was proposed Monday to expand Newark Liberty International Airport to handle future air traffic growth and larger aircraft by tearing the old airport down and building a new one over the next four decades. A $20 billion airport proposal introduced by the Regional Plan Association Monday would do that in four phases over a 40-year period.
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KXAS-TV
From May 16: A sinkhole created a mess in a Hackensack parking lot Monday afternoon, swallowing a backhoe in a construction site, authorities say. According to Hackensack Fire Department officials, the backhoe was digging to repair a water main servicing 390 Hackensack Ave., located at Riverside Square Mall, when the sinkhole appeared around 2 p.m. Officials say the sinkhole was undermined due to the water main break.
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Engineering News-Record
From March 21: No public agency with "DOT" as part of its acronym has it easy, regardless of size or geography. But consider the complicated milieu that the New Jersey Department of Transportation faces in its infrastructure management responsibilities.
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WPGG-FM
From July 25: Anyone in New Jersey who travels to work by car or mass transit is well aware the region's transportation network is old and overburdened. The Natural Resources Defense Council is out with a new report that stresses the need to improve public transit, reduce congestion and pollution, and make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
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