March 27th 2008
NJ Transit will hold two public hearings about the change in plans to the bunker station proposed as part of the T.H.E. Tunnel. The changes involve reducing the station to 6 tracks and placing it almost 20 stories underground.
One public hearing is in Newark on Monday, March 31. The other is in New […]
March 13th 2008
The Asbury Park Press reports that doors on NJ Transit trains have been opening while trains were in motion:
United Transportation Union officials revealed a list of six incidents in February in which doors opened up while trains were in motion on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast and Morris and Essex lines.
In addition, a train […]
March 4th 2008
In a recent article about delays at NY Penn Station, NJ Transit spokesman Dan Stessel made the following statement:
“The incidents on Tuesday and Thursday could not have come at a worse time or in a worse location,” Stessel said. “Any time there’s an interruption in the normal two-track flow in and out of Penn Station […]
February 26th 2008
If I’m reading the new proposed state budget correctly, NJ Transit’s funding would go from $298.2 million to $358.2 million, an increase of 20%.
Elsewhere in the above document, I see references to increasing NJT’s funding by $100 million, then reducing it by $40 million. (That’s where the $60 million figure comes from.) The […]
February 25th 2008
PATH is giving free rides today from 6 AM to 11 PM to celebrate PATH’s 100 anniversary. They will also be distributing vouchers for free SmartLink cards. Train service started between 19th Street (yes, 19th St) and Hoboken on February 25, 1908, with two VIP trains. Revenue service started at midnight.
Here is […]
February 21st 2008
I wrote about the advantages of raising the state’s gas tax back in October. Now, Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) has proposed a combination of an increased gas tax, increased tolls, and selling the lottery as a way to pay down state debt and pay for transportation projects:
Wisniewski’s plan would not create […]
February 17th 2008
A friend of mine recently had to make a trip from Hoboken to Chatham, on the Morris & Essex Line, on a Saturday morning. He complained that the trip took over an hour. That sounded way too long for a 23.5 mile trip, so I checked the schedule. My friend was right, […]
February 15th 2008
On Sunday, Governor Corzine announced that the MOM line will not go through Middlesex County. “It will be the MO line, not the MOM line,” Corzine said. Today, in a letter in the Home News Tribune, NJ Transit announced they will ignore the results of the MOM DEIS:
Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri and NJ […]
January 31st 2008
Last summer, NJ Transit said the earliest weekend service could start on the Montclair Line was “the latter half of 2008″. Now, weekend service has been delayed to at least the fall of 2009.
The most recent in a line of excuses is construction work by NJDOT on the Bloomfield Avenue bridge over the railroad […]
January 24th 2008
The owner of the first place New Jersey Devils was just on TV. He said that 53% of the fans take transit to the Prudential Center. Devils ticket sales are up 26% from last year. He also said they realize that there aren’t enough eating establishments for the non-premium ticket holders, so […]
