Category: Schedules & Service


  • STRIKE! We’re Out (in the Cold)

    Statement on the NJ Transit Strike UPDATE! We are glad to hear of the tentative agreement, though many of our members will be working their way to tonight’s meeting at the Summit Free Public Library without a train—#70 bus it is! We’re glad to see service restored tomorrow, May 20. Comments from May 16: This…

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  • PATH Is Closed This Month—What Now?

    Reprinted here from NJ Transit: There will be some schedule adjustments to select trains to enhance capacity and travel options for customers. These adjustments [began] on Monday, February 3, 2025 and continue through Friday, February 28, 2025. Rail customers traveling in and out of Hoboken Terminal will have the ability to connect to any one…

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  • Stuck on NJT? Check Out Our Site!

    As users of the NJT rail network ourselves, we know that there are times when there are delays or outright service suspensions. NJ Transit has put together a list of “Alternatives, Backups, and Contingency” routes, but with very little context, and in some cases, outright errors. Our Web site now has a list of service…

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  • Need an Alternative to the RVRL?

    Here’s a list of alternatives by town for those who need it: Union: Roselle Park Cranford/Garwood/Westfield Fanwood Netherwood Plainfield Dunellen Bound Brook/Bridgewater Somerville Raritan North Branch Annandale/Lebanon/Whitehouse High Bridge

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  • Need an Alternative to the NJCL?

    Here’s a list of alternatives by town for those who need it: Avenel – #115 to PABT…for Newark, take it to Jersey Gardens for the #24 or #40 (you have to walk through the mall to get to the local bus stop) Woodbridge – #116 to PABT or #803 to Metropark/#48 to Rahway for the…

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  • “Rush hour” at Bernardsville

    So we trekked over there to find out what was happening.  I wanted to find out whether the trains were really still terminating there (Yes), were they being parked somewhere farther west on the main line (No), or were they being sent back east to possibly delay the next train coming west (Yes). We arrived…

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  • Make Your Voice Heard at NJ Transit’s Hearings on Proposed Fare Increases and Service Cuts

    New Jersey Transit has called for fare increases and elimination of some service that affect our area of concern. They include eliminating the last train of the evening from Hoboken on the Montclair-Boonton and Pascack Valley Lines, as well as eliminating the connection between Morristown and the Livingston Mall on the #872 bus. The Lackawanna…

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  • Weekend PATH World Trade Service to Be Suspended

    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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  • Winter Woes Ad Nausuem

    New York area transit operations have suffered through a difficult week. On the evening of Tuesday, January 28, an NJ Transit train inbound to New York got stuck in the tunnel, and it took hours to pull the train into Penn Station, where it arrived after 1 a.m. Fortunately, only 23 riders were aboard the…

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  • NJT to Extend MyBus Now to Port Authority Runs

    For bus travellers on NJ Transit to or from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, it has been difficult to determine just when that next bus will arrive.  However, NJT’s MyBus Now program will be extended in June to the Port Authority routes, completing a rollout that first began in South Jersey, and later added non-Port…

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