New Jersey Finds a Bipartisan Way to Boost Transportation Funding

Governing: It was the calm Gov. Chris Christie who showed up Monday to a Laborers' International Union of North America hall to sign a supplemental bill releasing $400 million for immediate funding to the Department of Transportation for work on New Jersey's roads, bridges and transit.

"That's what bipartisanship is all about," Christie said. "Everybody doesn't get everything that they want, but everybody gets some of what they need, and that's what we did with this bill."

The new bill delivers some $260 million in road construction funds and $140 million in transit construction funding.

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