Category: Service Disruptions
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Morris & Essex and Montclair-Boonton lines are scheduled to restore service at noon, Saturday, Feb. 9; service had been suspended at 8 p.m. on Friday during the snowstorm. NJT attributed this action to the vulnerability of those lines to tree damage, citing the experience of Superstorm Sandy in October (which has resulted in continuing reduction…
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Although most rail transit services in the Northeast have been restored after Superstorm Sandy, in New Jersey most NJT commuter rail services remain severely curtailed or totally suspended. As the outage nears its third week, many users of the service find little information available as to when it might resume, or even what is being…
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As tropical storm Sandy neared the area, all transit systems in the region shut down on Sunday, October 28. By Monday morning all trains and buses in the region were at a standstill, and states of emergency were in effect. NJ Transit announced that major stations such as Newark Penn Station, Secaucus Junction, and Trenton…
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A computer problem left about 140 passengers stranded on the popular AirTrain serving Kennedy International Airport on Saturday evening, August 25, according to reporting by John Leland in The New York Times (Aug. 27). Three 2-car trains were stranded, and some passengers were forced to walk almost a mile to the nearest station. The disruption…
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Conditions were returning to normal at about 7 p.m. on June 14, as PATH service to World Trade Center resumed following President Obama’s visit. The service had been interrupted for about 4 hours as commuters sought alternative routes; NJ Transit was cross-honoring tickets among bus, NJT train, and PATH until 7:30 p.m. Reportedly, a significant…
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Continuing track maintenance on the Gladstone Branch this summer has required bus service replacing trains on weekdays between roughly 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; riders should note that inbound buses leave 15–30 minutes earlier than the trains they replace, leading to longer journey times, which are longest for the most outlying stations. Outbound delays are…
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Three severe service disruptions in as many days made commuting difficult for New Jersey rail riders on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, June 21st, 22nd, and 23d. Although the difficulties originated on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Line, some commuters and other riders on the Morris & Essex, Montclair-Boonton, and Gladstone Lines were affected. These lines use NEC…
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Weekday trains scheduled for midday hours are not running on the Gladstone Line this summer, due to a tie-replacement project. Buses are running between Summit and Gladstone on a similar schedule, but the buses leave Gladstone earlier than the trains they replace. Weekend trains are not affected this year. The outage began on June 20th…
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January 2011 was NJ Transit’s worst month for train delays in 6 years, since January 2005, according to Mike Frassinelli, writing in the Star-Ledger (February 11). The railroad classifies trains as “late” if they arrive 6 minutes or more after their schedule. This January, trains were “late” 8.8% of the time; in January 2010, trains…
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