Category: NJT Performance
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Everyone feared the recent snowstorm, which New York Mayor DiBlasio predicted would be “historic” in its effect. The actual storm did not reach that level of intensity or devastation in New Jersey or New York City, but it is shaping up to be one of the worst winter storms of all time in New England…
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In part reacting to the recent fatal train wreck on Metro-North Railroad, NJ Transit announced on April 8 that they would spend half a million dollars on an outside consultant to review NJT’s safety practices, according to media reports. The railroad also plans a 17-member internal committee to monitor safety. Investigations of Metro-North’s safety practices…
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Delays to NJ Transit trains are increasing, and commuters are not happy, according to reporting by Mike Frassinelli in the Star-Ledger (March 14). In all but one of the last 9 months, Frassinelli writes, NJT fared worse than in the previous year. February, in fact, was the worst month for train delays in 18 years,…
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Attempts by NJ Assemblyman John Wisniewski to investigate possible transportation failures at the February 2 Super Bowl were stymied on March 10 when both NJ Transit and National Football League representatives failed to appear at a meeting of the Assembly Transportation Committee, which Wisniewski, a Democrat, chairs, according to reporting in the Wall Street Journal…
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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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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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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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From our vantage point at Secaucus Station, it appeared that the rail operation was going smoothly. The rotunda was not jammed with people and, as trains from the stadium emptied their loads of fans at Secaucus, they were being directed appropriately to the proper platform and sent to their trains, mostly to Penn Station, New…
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THIS REPORT IS OUT OF DATE. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS HAVE REVEALED THAT THE SITUATION HAD CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THAT REPORT WAS ISSUED. UPDATED COVERAGE HERE. Last night’s game was a total disaster. It was utterly awful. I feel terribly sorry for the people who bought tickets to go to the game—but that’s primarily the fault of…
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Although NJ Transit handled a record number of customers to Sunday’s Super Bowl, most media reports focused on the problems fans encountered in getting to MetLife Stadium, and on leaving. The railroad reported it handled about 28,000 riders each way, roughly a third of the total attendance at the event. Its previous record of passengers…
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