November 6th 2007
Cellphone noise pollution (from both the devices and the users) invades nearly every element of life these days, and nowhere is it more annoying and almost inescapable than in the cramped confines of public transportation. Here’s one CalTrain rider’s solution…
One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. […]
September 15th 2007
Jeffrey G. Otteau, president of the Otteau Appraisal Group in East Brunswick, N.J., picked out the pattern while analyzing the unsold housing inventory in towns on and around the commuter rail lines into New Jersey. Communities directly on the rail lines and fairly close to the city, like Maplewood, Montclair and Chatham, tend to have […]
August 29th 2007
My unusual commute, New Brunswick to Long Branch via Rahway, has only one good morning connection that gets me there with the minimum amount of layover at Rahway and minimum number of stops. I usually have an easy 9-minute connection to make in Rahway.
Today, my eastbound from New Brunswick was a few minutes late. The […]
August 11th 2007
Middlesex County Freeholder Director David Crabiel, stung by recent editorials and letters in the mainstream press, fires back in a “friendly” local media outlet at NJ-ARP’s Daniel Green. His “ammunition” is his record on construction of more parking spaces for expansion of bus service and highways. How sad. Look at the numbers on motor-vehicle pollution […]
June 16th 2007
Recent statements by Freeholder Director David Crabiel regarding the proposed routing of NJ Transit passenger service through Ocean and Monmouth Counties via Monmouth Junction to New Brunswick are puzzling. Why does he object to using existing, active railroad tracks to create better access to New Brunswick for Rutgers students, J&J employees, visitors to and employees […]
May 31st 2007
The city banned cigarettes in bars, and the smokers trooped out to the sidewalk. Trans fats in restaurants were next, and the French fry addicts mostly shrugged. But since the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that it was considering banning alcohol on commuter trains, it has been a different story. Bankers and brokers and blue-collar workers […]
May 1st 2007
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
By DAVID A. MICHAELS
STAFF WRITER
The Bergen Record
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made waves last week when he proposed a separate toll to drive into the most congested parts of his city.
But New Jersey could be close to doing the same thing — charging drivers to enter the Garden State.
Now, […]
April 3rd 2007
French Train Breaks Rail Speed Record
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 3, 2007
Filed at 9:35 a.m. ET
ABOARD TRAIN V150, France (AP) — A French train with a 25,000-horsepower engine and special wheels broke the world speed record Tuesday for conventional rail trains, reaching 357.2 mph as it zipped through the countryside to the applause of […]
March 25th 2007
So what’s the PA been spending our tax dollars on? Acquiring new rolling stock, station improvements, service expansion? Read this Bergen Record article and try not to scratch your head so hard that you draw blood.
The Port Authority has spent almost $100 million since 2003 to subsidize elite New York City cultural institutions and […]
