CAPE MAY — Curtis Bashaw, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey, said he opposed a NJ Transit fare hike, arguing that commuters shouldn’t pay more for NJ Transit’s and Amtrak’s failures.
“It’s unacceptable that thousands of New Jersey commuters were stuck in trains or between tracks for hours this week, during a heat wave. New Jersey commuters should not continue to bear the cost of these continued infrastructure failures and incompetence from AMTRAK and NJ Transit,” Bashaw said in a statement.
“Until services consistently improve, I’m calling on Governor Murphy to cancel the July 1st 15% fare hike on New Jersey Transit commuters,” Bashaw added. “Moreover, as the June 30th state budget deadline approaches, legislative leaders should reject a $1 billion corporate transit tax on businesses, which would give the Garden State the highest corporate tax in the nation and continue to make New Jersey more expensive.
Bashaw said voters should know where his opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim stands on raising NJ Transit fees.
