February 23rd 2008
According to a Marketwire article:
Bombardier Transportation has been awarded a contract for 27 ALP-46A electric locomotives by the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ TRANSIT). The powerful new locomotives will help NJ TRANSIT expand capacity in its passenger rail operations, hauling specially designed Multilevel commuter rail cars Bombardier is currently delivering to the transit service provider. […]
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, […]
March 18th 2007
Today’s NY Times has a rather lengthy article on regional rail fares in the NJ/NY/CT area. It’s accompanied by an interesting graphic showing evening peak period travel times from NYC in a map format. One of the things that’s not discussed often is NJ Transit’s lengthening of travel times over the years.
I made […]
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