New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is winning praise from Newark and Jersey City leaders and residents after killing an unpopular plan proposed by her predecessor to widen the highway infrastructure leading to the Holland Tunnel.
Sherrill on Tuesday recommended the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s board move forward with a $6.7 billion project to replace the Newark Bay Bridge, which carries the Turnpike’s Hudson County extension from Newark to Bayonne.
But the recommendation came with a critical caveat: Sherrill wants a single new bridge to be built to the same capacity as the current one, rather than building two new bridges to increase the number of lanes. She also wants to dump a plan to widen the extension…