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New Jersey Report

New Jersey infrastructure requires significant investment for improvements to continue to transportation infrastructure.

New Jersey Infrastructure Overview

While the nation’s infrastructure earned a C in the 2025 Infrastructure Report Card, New Jersey faces infrastructure challenges of its own. For example, driving on roads in need of repair in New Jersey costs each driver $713 per year, and 7.8% of bridges are rated structurally deficient. Drinking water needs in New Jersey are an estimated $8.6 billion. 229 dams are considered to be high-hazard potential. The state’s schools have an estimated capital expenditure gap of $1.58 billion. This deteriorating infrastructure impedes New Jersey’s ability to compete in an increasingly global marketplace. Success in a 21st-century economy requires serious, sustained leadership on infrastructure investment at all levels of government. Delaying these investments only escalates the cost and risks of an aging infrastructure system, an option that the country, New Jersey, and families can no longer afford.

New Jersey recorded 159 million passenger trips across 34 systems in 2021.

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Aviation

$29.1 million in 2024 airport improvement grants across 4 major airports

Drinking Water

$12.3 billion total drinking water need

Transit

219 million passenger trips across 32 systems in 2023

Bridges

6,827 bridges, 6% of which were structurally deficient in 2024

Hazardous Waste

153 Superfund sites

Wastewater

$11.7 billion total wastewater need

Dams

231 high hazard dams

Levees

99 miles of levees protect 21,100 residents

Roads

22% of roads are in poor or fair condition

IIJA Grants

$0M

for Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay in Highlands

$0M

for Route 7 drainage improvements

$0M

for dam removal on the Musconetcong River

$0K

for the Billybey Ferry Company

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