April 27th 2008
This little-used service to Hoboken is eliminated on weekends as of May 11. It will eliminate the use of a trainset and crew with the remaining service run with 3 trainsets. Except for a St. Patrick’s parade in Hoboken, I have never witnessed more than 6 people on board those trains east of Newark. That […]
April 25th 2008
Midday weekday M&E service will soon more or less resemble what it is on weekends: hourly service between Dover and NYPS, dovetailing at Summit with a slower hourly Gladstone-Hoboken local service requiring the latter to sit at Summit for 10 or more minutes.
While weekend service frequency remains constant for all stations, there will be […]
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, […]
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 […]
November 4th 2007
On October 29, Amtrak abolished most service at Princeton Junction, including most Keystone service and The Pennsylvanian. On weekdays, only 3 early morning southbound and 3 evening northbound trains will stop, 2 being Regionals and 1 being a Keystone. Weekend service will consist of only a Keystone frequency in either direction in the morning each […]
October 11th 2007
NJ Transit has posted the new Pascack Valley Line schedule here (225 KB PDF). Contrary to Internet rumors, the towns that opposed the passing sidings have not been bypassed by the new service.
September 30th 2007
Hooray! The substitute busing on the Gladstone Branch has finally ended! Let’s hope we never have to do that for an entire summer again. I wonder what effect that had on the ridership.
August 30th 2007
The weekday substitute busing on the Gladstone Branch has ended. But the weekend substitute busing will continue until September 29.
Note that a new schedule goes into effect on Friday, August 31. Also, train service will operate on the Gladstone Branch on Labor Day, September 3.
August 23rd 2007
The folks at Baristanet recently asked about weekend train service on the Montclair Line and got the following response from NJT. As you can see, the excuses continue:
There are a number of projects currently underway that affect our ability to introduce weekend service along the Montclair Line. The most significant of these is a […]
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 […]
