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Poll: Tell Us How You Really Feel About New Jersey's Gas Tax Increase

The sun is setting on the days of cheap gas in New Jersey.

Mohammad Baksh is a gas attendant at the BP station on New Bridge Road and South Washington Avenue.

Mohammad Baksh is a gas attendant at the BP station on New Bridge Road and South Washington Avenue.

 Photo Credit: Cecilia Levine
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Poll
Will the gas tax increase be better in the long run?
Final Results Voting Closed

Will the gas tax increase be better in the long run?

  • Absolutely! Fix our streets!
    25%
  • No way. I just want cheap gas.
    75%

Beginning Tuesday, taxes will go from 14.5 cents per gallon to 37.5 cents per gallon.

Gov. Chris Christie and New Jersey's Democratic-led Legislature agreed to raise the gas tax by 23 cents. 

This will be the first time taxes have been raised in New Jersey since 1988.

The change was effected the day following the fatal Hoboken train crash, which shed light on the low balance in New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund — used to fund railroad, street and bridge improvements.

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