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Larry Higgs

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  • Transportation Reporter, NJ.com
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As seen in: NJ.com, MSN, Yahoo Life, USA Today, Yahoo Finance, Flipboard, Yahoo Sports, AL.com, MosaicNJcom, South Jersey Times, Suburban News and
Covers:  Anything that rolls, floats or flies, including the agencies that get people around, the commuting lifestyle and doing some problem solving/question answering for readers.
Doesn't Cover: What my editors like to call "inside baseball" topics that put the reader to sleep.
NJ Advance Media #journalist covers #transportation & #commuting. @njdotcom, riding NJ Transit, GSP & bike. Subscribe&support email lhiggs@njadvancemedia.com.

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I'm a reporter for NJ.com and the Star-Ledger covering transportation issue with an emphasis on commuting between New Jersey and New York. I'm a Jersey veteran, having worked at the Asbury Park Press, Courier-News and Daily Record in the past.
I'm a multi-modal traveler, using the type of transportation that works best at a particular time. As a wisened NJ Transportation Commissioner said, no one mode of transportation is the "silver bullet."
You will find me on buses, trains, bikes, e-scooter…

Larry Higgs’s Journalist Portfolio

Your Parkway and Turnpike tolls are going up Jan. 1 - again

Your Parkway and Turnpike tolls are going up Jan. 1 - again

It's Deja Vu all over again. Another statewide scoop about a coming toll increase from a one liner in the Au…

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NJ Transit junked its equipment sooner than it planned. Now it has to settle up with the feds.

NJ Transit junked its equipment sooner than it planned. Now it has to settle up with the feds.

The $24 million "federal interest" in these rusty engines could haunt the agency in future grants. Parked in…

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Toll hike proposed for Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, but they won't tell us how much

Toll hike proposed for Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, but they won't tell us how much

I broke this story state wide from a mundane item on the board agenda no one wanted to talk about. There's a …

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Is NJ Transit's new waiting room policy constitutional?

Is NJ Transit's new waiting room policy constitutional?

Want to sit down in NJ Transit's main waiting area at Penn Station in Newark? You're going to have to show yo…

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Controversial audio surveillance of NJ Transit riders comes to quiet end

Controversial audio surveillance of NJ Transit riders comes to quiet end

NJ Transit has stopped eavesdropping on conversations aboard its light rail trains after facing a string of c…

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NJ Transit is recording the conversations of thousands of its riders

NJ Transit is recording the conversations of thousands of its riders

Casual commuter conversations on light rail trains have an unexpected eavesdropper - NJ Transit. Video and au…

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Ben Franklin Bridge closed Sunday morning for bike-a-thon Original

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By Larry Higgs 
| NJ.com
News Published: Jun. 05, 2026, 2:47 p.m. Ben Franklin Bridge seen from Cooper’s Point Park in Camden. The bridge will be closed Sunday morning for the start of a charity bike tour. Joe Warner | For NJ Advance Media The Ben Franklin Bridge between New Jersey and Philadelphia will be closed to vehicular traffic in both directions from 5:45 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, for the American Cancer Society’s Bridge to the Beach bike-a-thon.
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United Airlines pilot warned ‘you’re slow and a little low’ before hitting light pole, truck on NJ Turnpike

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By Larry Higgs 
| Yahoo
The first officer of a United Airlines jet warned the pilot "you are still slow and a little low" before the aircraft hit a light pole and tractor trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike while landing at Newark Liberty Airport on May 3. A preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board about the May 3 incident said the airliner was hit by a 34 mph wind gust just before crossing the highway.
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Getting a Real ID in N.J. just got a lot easier, Gov. says. Here’s what changed. Original

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By Larry Higgs 
| NJ.com
Getting a Real ID driver’s license is becoming less of an ordeal with more appointments, four additional agencies handling the transaction and other changes that streamline the process, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Thursday. Sherrill and Acting Motor Vehicle Commission Chief Administrator Rosalie Johnson said more Jersey drivers have obtained the Real ID license needed for domestic air travel. The state now has 2.5 million Real ID holders out of more than 6 million licensed drivers.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

A small, upstart weekly in Parsippany N.J.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes and I hated it.

How is social media changing news?

Instant contact with readers and eyewitnesses and they have access to journalists.

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