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flooding and wave action. 1 Many of those highways serve as evac- uation routes during hurricanes and other coastal storms and would be compromised in the future if sea levels rise. According to Rutgers NJCAA, “although coastal highway mileage is a small fraction of the nearly 4 million miles of public roads in the United States, the vulnerability of these highways is concentrated in a few states, and some of these routes also serve as barriers to sea intrusion and as evacuation routes.” 2 New Jersey is one of those “few states”. The Rutgers’ report went on to note that there is potential for closure or restric- tions for several of the nation’s busiest airports that lie in coastal zones and which affect service to Northern New Jersey and New York City. Of signifi- cant alarm is the fact that many of our “critical transportation infrastructure facilities” lie at elevations around 6 to 20 ft above sea level, which makes them vulnerable to current and pro- jected storm surges from hurricanes or nor’easters. For example, many of the rail and tunnel entrance points, and portions of major airports in the New York metropolitan area lie at these vulnerable elevations. 3 Temperature extremes play havoc with our transportation infrastructure, both for the State and also within our communities. While shorter winters and less extreme cold will show ben- efits as a reduction in work closures and costs for ice and snow removal, there will be converse increases in

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