NJ Transit to discuss Christie's cuts

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - February 17, 2010

NJ Transit officials expect to discuss Gov. Chris Christie's plan to withhold $32.7 million from the agency's $296 million subsidy for the current fiscal year.

Christie told a joint session of the Legislature last week that NJ Transit must improve it's efficiency, revisit its "rich union contracts and end "the patronage hiring that has typified its past."

The action was part of an executive order that Christie signed to freeze $1.6 billion in unspent money. Christie said he was taking that step to help cut the state's $2.2 billion budget hole.

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