NJT More Unprepared Than Ever for Shore Trips
May 27th 2008 11:14 am
Poll: 6 in 10 New Jerseyans planning Shore trip
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080525/STATE/80525010
This year, for the first time in my memory, ALL summer weekend service south of Long Branch will be hourly Bay Head shuttles connecting with locals from NYPS and Newark.
- No expresses, either through or connecting, from Newark
- No Waterfront Connection service at all from Hoboken.
- All slow locals, uncompetitive with the GSP, and unsuitable for anyone not living along the NJCL or NEC. Any other Hoboken Division passenger would have to pay New York fares and sweat out long transfer times at Secaucus. There was a time when there was also a Bergen-Shore Express from Suffern.
Contrast this with the show the LIRR, the largest commuter railroad in the nation, puts on for access to Jones Beach, Fire Island communities and The Hamptons. NJT has again proven itself to be nothing more than being Metro-West Commuter Railroad and increasingly irrelevant for intra-Jersey use.
Clark Morris responded on 15 Jun 2008 at 7:40 pm #
The situation may be at the direction of DOT. One commentator on a light rail group believed that Corzine was frustrated at not getting the toll changes he wanted and is taking it out on those he believes are in opposition. Since I want New Jersey Transit to be a transit operation and I believe that hourly express service to the shore might break even, the currentr trend is counterproductive.
Joe Versaggi responded on 16 Jun 2008 at 7:06 am #
More service cuts will occur on August 3 on the RVL, M&E, and NJCL. RVL ones will mean bi-hourly service on Sunday mornings, basically a throwback to 10 years ago. More trains on the other 2 lines will be combined.
I think their ulterior motive is to cut service in Republican legislative districts of non-Manhattan trains so as to goose up the percentage of passengers of total that do go to Manhattan to make a case of the THE Tunnel boondoggle. NJT has no interest in any rail ridership other than traditional Manhattan-oriented travelers.
I am not willing to subsidize Metro West Commuter Railroad. They have sliced up cuts over several months so as not to trigger legal requirement for public hearings, and think we are too stupid and politically impotent to see that. It is still unethical and will protest to my legislators.
Unlike MTA and SEPTA, you cannot buy anything but Monthly tickets on-line. Therefore the trains are overstaffed with ticket collectors. NJT will soon be hated as much as the old DMV. They were dismantled and turned into MVC. The same should happen to our costly, failed Soviet-style business model called NJT.
Sciencehome » Blog Archive » njt responded on 24 Jul 2008 at 4:12 am #
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