Category: Service Disruptions
-
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…
Read more
-
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…
Read more
-
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
Read more
-
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…
Read more
-
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…
Read more
-
On the coldest night of the year, 1000 riders on a packed rush-hour NJ Transit train from New York to New Brunswick got no farther than a little beyond Newark on Tuesday evening, January 7, after an overhead wire fell on the train. Heat and main lighting immediately failed, and the train sat from 6:15 p.m.…
Read more
-
Less than 10 months after Hurricane Sandy devastated NJ Transit’s rail operations, the railroad received a sharp reminder of the power of nature on Thursday, August 22, as intense local storms struck northern Somerset County and wiped out the roadbed on the line’s Gladstone Branch in multiple places, disrupting train service for days. Local weather…
Read more
-
NJT Repairs Line Quickly, But Substitute Bus Service Was Questionable Less than 10 months after Hurricane Sandy devastated NJ Transit’s rail operations, the railroad received a sharp reminder of the power of nature. On Thursday, August 22, intense local storms struck northern Somerset County and wiped out the roadbed on the line’s Gladstone Branch in…
Read more
-
No Bus Service Offered West of Bernardsville Service on the western end of the Gladstone Branch was disrupted Thursday by a washout between Bernardsville and Far Hills. Trains were delayed and terminated at Bernardsville. On Thursday, substitute bus service was provided so customers could get to Far Hills, Pepack, and Gladstone. NJTransit has said that…
Read more
-
NJT Executive Director James W. Weinstein indirectly blamed the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy for a shutdown of rail service on the Morris & Essex, Montclair-Boonton, and Gladstone Lines during the snowstorm on Friday and Saturday, February 8th and 9th. He said that, with the Mason Substation out of service and only a substation in Summit…
Read more
