July 31st 2007
You may have heard that the Pascack Valley Line will have off-peak and weekend service starting October 28, 2007. NJ Transit has installed four passing sidings and a new signal system on the line (a project that took years longer than it should have), allowing the increase in service.
NJ Transit and Metro-North haven’t finalized […]
July 10th 2007
You may not have noticed, but NJ Transit operated trains on the Montclair-Boonton Line last Saturday, July 7. The Fireworks Express trains, apparently paid for by PSE&G, provided free service to and from the Township of Montclair’s fireworks display. The trains served the Bay Street, Walnut Street, Watchung Avenue, Upper Montclair, and Mountain […]
June 3rd 2007
Today is the beginning of a three month long construction project on the Gladstone Branch that will require substitute busing on weekends and during off-peak hours. There will be no weekend train service for June, July, and August, while off-peak train service will be suspended starting in July.
This is the biggest “bustitution” project on […]
April 13th 2007
Anyone who has ever tried to figure out where any particular NJ Transit bus goes has quickly discovered that NJT does not make system maps. And the diagrams on the bus schedules sometimes look like they apply to a world created by M. C. Escher. Enter Mike Vago, who needed to find out where the […]
April 6th 2007
Trains will operate on a regular weekday schedule today. But since today is a state holiday, Off-Peak Round-Trip Tickets will be valid on all trains. That’s a good excuse to take a ride, if you don’t have to work.
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 […]
