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  • A New ROUTE For Essex County

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    A guest post by ROUTE founder Nick Giglia DeCamp bus stopping commuter service in April 2023 created a transit desert in many parts of Essex County, especially on weekends, where prepandemic demand and ridership have rebounded much more quickly than rush hour service due to hybrid work schedules. NJ Transit has provided limited rush-hour service…

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  • Congestion Pricing Dispute Keeps Courts Busy

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    David Peter Alan

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    Former Lackawanna Coalition Chair Albert L. Papp often refers to the river that physically divides New Jersey and New York as the “Hudson Ocean.” The ongoing dispute over New York’s congestion pricing plan to impose tolls on vehicles entering Manhattan’s Central Business District (CBD), defined as south of 60th Street, seems to affirm Papp’s moniker…

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  • Maryland County Expands Transit Tax Credits

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    An interesting article about Montgomery County, Maryland, and its increasing bus service and employer subsidies to entice more peopl eout of their cars: Note that they have 30-minute frequency, adjust service based on automatic rider counts about 3 times annually, and just increased the subsidies to employers, who pay $25/employee to enter the program, which…

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  • Raritan Valley “One-Seat-Ride” Service Belatedly Extended to Evening

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    David Peter Alan

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    Riders on the Raritan Valley Line (RVL) now can ride a train directly to or from New York Penn Station on weekday evenings, without having to change trains at Newark. The new service went into effect on Monday, January 12th. “One-Seat-Ride” service between the western terminals of Raritan and High Bridge and New York began…

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  • EWR Monorail, Station to Close May 1 for 75 Days

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    John Bobsin

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    Newark Liberty International Airport’s monorail system is showing its age, and it will shut down May 1 for a 75-day overhaul, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the transportation system, reported by Steve Strunsky in the Star-Ledger (April 9).  The monorail is the only way to get from…

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  • Executive Director: More Changes Coming to NJT

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    Donald Winship

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    Aside from announcing that Quiet Commute Cars will soon be offered on trains to and from Hoboken during midday hours on weekdays, New Jersey Transit Executive Director Veronique “Ronnie” Hakim said there are some other changes coming to the agency soon.

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  • Simpson Trashes NJT Staff Off-Peak Report

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    John Bobsin

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    “I threw the report in the garbage,” said NJ state transportation commissioner and NJ Transit board chairman Jim Simpson, referring to a report for NJ Transit rail operations saying that off-peak discounts for rail riders were not viable “for capacity reasons,” according to reporting by Mike Frassinelli in the Star-Ledger (March 13). “I don’t think…

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  • Equip Trains with Safety Cameras (Lawmakers)

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    John Bobsin

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    If several area lawmakers have their way, trains nationwide would be fitted with surveillance cameras that would record what the train engineer does and the track ahead.  Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut joined in a news conference at Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal on December 8 to make the…

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  • “Push-Pull” Trains Questioned After Metro-North Wreck

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    John Bobsin

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    Whether operation of trains by locomotives pushing rather than pulling the cars is totally safe has come into question after the fatal Metro-North train wreck that killed 4 passengers and injured many others on December 1. The train consisted of 8 cars and a dual-mode diesel and electric locomotive, which was pushing the cars from…

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