Lackawanna Coalition

advocating for rail passengers since 1979

Month: February 2014

  • All NY Commuter Lines Overtaxed

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    John Bobsin

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    Having a hard job finding a seat on  your train to Manhattan?  You’re not alone; all of the railroads serving the metropolitan area are having trouble coping with increasing ridership, according to an article on radio station WNYC’s Transportation Nation website by Jim O’Grady, and also reported on the air on February 25.  Ridership on…

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  • Panel to Investigate NJT Super Bowl Performance

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    John Bobsin

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    New Jersey Transit’s performance on Super Bowl Sunday remains controversial, after it took hours longer than expected for thousands of fans to be transported after the game.  NJT has congratulated itself on handling far more customers than expected, but that hasn’t placated riders who couldn’t leave the stadium station for hours after the final play. …

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  • Bus Riders’ Plight Terrible: Opinion

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    John Bobsin

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    Bus riders on NJ Transit get the short end of the stick, according to Alfred P. Doblin, editorial page editor of The Record newspaper.  After 3 years of riding NJT buses to his job, Doblin should know.  In the evenings at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, he writes, horrendous lines snake through the terminal as…

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  • Train Delays Top Priority for NJT: Riders

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    John Bobsin

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    Even as Veronique Hakim waited to be appointed NJ Transit’s new Executive Director, users of the state’s vast public transit system had some early advice for her, according to Larry Higgs, reporting in the Asbury Park Press and other Gannett newspapers: make the trains run on time, and stop the delays that have plagued riders…

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  • Assembly Hearing on Super Bowl Cancelled

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    John Bobsin

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    A hearing in Trenton on NJ Transit’s controversial performance on Super Bowl Sunday has been cancelled, reportedly  because NJ Transit, the National Football League, and MetLife Stadium refused to cooperate, according to statements by Assembly Transportation Committee chair Assemblyman John Wisniewski and reported by Karen Rouse in The Record newspaper (February 21).  The hearing had…

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  • Raritan One-Seat Rides Begin March 3

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    John Bobsin

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    After years of petitioning NJ Transit, riders on the Raritan Valley Line will finally get a one-seat ride into Manhattan, starting March 3.  Sort of.  According to reporting by Mike Frassinelli in the Star-Ledger (Feb. 19), the new service will be limited, featuring only 5 round trips each weekday, and only in midday hours, not…

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  • Hakim Tapped as Weinstein Steps Down

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    John Bobsin

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    NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein has submitted his resignation and will leave his post by March 2, according to reporting by Karen Rouse in The Record (Feb. 18).  He will be replaced by Veronique “Ronnie” Hakim, currently executive director of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.  The transit agency has been controversial since flooding damaged…

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  • Editorial: NJ Transit and the Super Bowl: We are Concerned and We Want Answers (Updated)

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    Donald Winship

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    There have been a number of significant developments concerning NJ Transit’s performance in getting fans to and from the Super Bowl game last Sunday.  At first we reported that NJT had done an “incredible” job of moving everybody.  There were no wrecks or injuries, so they deserve credit for that.  Still, as we found out…

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  • Weekend PATH World Trade Service to Be Suspended

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    John Bobsin

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    Weekend service on the PATH transit system to World Trade Center and Exchange Place, Jersey City, will be suspended entirely for most weekends in 2014, starting February 14.  The suspensions will begin around midnight Friday night; service will resume at approximately 4:45 a.m. on Mondays.  Additional trains will run on the 33rd St.—Journal Square (via…

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  • Super Bowl Drumbeat Continues

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    John Bobsin

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    Days after thousands of riders waiting in long lines to ride trains to and from the Super Bowl, the media drumbeat about their experience continued, with NJ Transit officials on the defensive even as they proclaimed success in getting fans to and from the big game.  NJT’s estimates are that 28,000 riders traveled via train…

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