Category: Service Cuts & Restorations
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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 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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The Princeton Branch (otherwise known as the “Dinky”) will soon become Dinkier. New Jersey Transit will begin to remove the tracks and the overhead wire that powers the trains on the portion of the line closest to downtown Princeton. This marks a defeat for the New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers (NJ-ARP), which had sought…
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New timetables effective March 24 for all NJ Transit heavy-rail services restored most service that was still reduced after Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Some trains are still missing, notably 3 daily round trips between Bay Head and Hoboken on the North Jersey Coast Line and some runs to Waldwick on the Main/Bergen lines. On the…
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New Jersey Transit’s ALP-45DP dual-power locomotives ran into Penn Station for the first time last weekend. Because of maintenance on the wires that supply electric power to trains on the Morris & Essex (M&E) Line, the power was turned off between Maplewood and Morris Plains on Saturday and for some of the service day on…
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New Jersey Transit says that rail service to and from Penn Station runs as frequently as it did before Superstorm Sandy struck, but Hoboken service has not returned to that level. NJT Executive Director James W. Weinstein said that he expects the prestorm level of service to return to Hoboken with the next timetable change,…
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Morris County Service Also Cut The Lackawanna Coalition has obtained a draft schedule for the Morris & Essex Line and Gladstone Branch, which is slated to take effect on Monday, December 3rd. The good news is that Gladstone Branch service will return for the first time since Superstorm Sandy disrupted service late in October. The…
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New Jersey Transit eliminated 4 bus lines running in Newark and Bloomfield, while cutting service on other lines in the area. The cuts will take effect on September 1st. The agency decided to save one of the routes slated for elimination; the #78, which provides service between Penn Station and Broad Street Station in Newark and Secaucus, primarily during peak commuting…
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Cyclists Win Some and Lose Some; Public Not Consulted New Jersey Transit implemented new policies regarding bringing bicycles onto trains on July 1st. The victory for bike riders was that bikes can now be brought onto trains at all stations, not only stations with high-level platforms. The loss for bike riders is that cyclists from…
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Several months ago, NJ Transit modified its bicycle-on-board-trains policy to prohibit use of bicycles at stations that do not have high-level platforms; this ended bike use at many popular stations that lack high-level platforms, including the Hoboken Terminal. An outcry from bicyclists ensued; now NJT has updated their policy). However, the new policy, available as…
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