Moreover, the Court specifically stated that, if the public policy of one state allows suit against another state, the Full Faith and Credit clause does not require that state to grant the other immunity. 1182, 1190-91, 59 L.Ed.2d 416 (1979), the Supreme Court held that whether one state is required to accord sovereign immunity in its courts to another state is purely a question of comity and is not a constitutional mandate. We agree with appellants that the Full Faith and Credit Clause does not mandate that a state recognize another state's laws granting itself and its agencies immunity from suit.Therefore, we find that New Jersey has the more significant relationship to the parties and the occurrence, and as a result, we will apply the New Jersey Tort Claims Act. The Act, like its Pennsylvania counterparts, enables injured persons to sue government entities for damages, but simply imposes limits. While this Commonwealth has strong interests in protecting its citizens against tortious acts and in regulating the conduct of a foreign corporation, such interests are not impeded by applying the New Jersey Tort Claims Act. New Jersey Transit Corp., supra at 890-891. Moreover, appellee receives a significant portion of its operating budget from New Jersey tax dollars and conducts most of its business in the state of New Jersey. New Jersey has a strong interest in regulating the conduct of its common carriers and of its highways. Here, the place of injury and the place of the alleged tortious conduct is New Jersey. In the instant case, applying the same factors as in Laconis, we find that New Jersey has the more significant relationship to the parties and the occurrence.In the early days of the pandemic, when social distancing and masking were two of the only defenses for essential workers who relied on public transit to get to work, the agency added service to the most in-demand bus routes to accommodate distancing. The pandemic forced NJ Transit to be more adaptable when it came to modifying its bus service to meet ridership demands. 88 through North Bergen and Jersey Cityincreased 52% and the No. 2 through Secaucus and Jersey City increased 18% on an average weekday the No. Those changes and the significantly improved service overall led to jumps in ridership numbers across all six lines when comparing June 2022 to September 2022. Meanwhile, NJ Transit has put additional resources into especially the 10 and 119, by adding more scheduled trips to these lines and using articulated buses, the long buses that bend in the middle, which carry more passengers than other models.
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