As deadlines loom to fix transportation budgets at the federal and state levels, a big group of elected Democrats from across North Jersey gathered in downtown Englewood on Friday to demand that any funding fix include money to extend light rail into Bergen County.

The train line currently cuts across most of Hudson County. The northernmost station, at Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, was completed in 2006, according to NJ Transit, which operates the line. Since then, construction has been stalled, first by residents in Tenafly who opposed building a station there, and now by a lack of funding from the state and federal governments.

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