Lackawanna Coalition

advocating for rail passengers since 1979

Tag: accessibility

  • Taking Transit to Trails with NJ Transit

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    Daniel Chazin

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    NJ Transit’s Transit to Trails web page, www.NJTransit.com/trails, states that it “gives everyone the ability to access over 40 parks in all 21 New Jersey counties via our bus, light rail, rail, or Access Link services”. In fact, very few New Jersey parks can be accessed via public transit, and the transit-accessible ones are primarily…

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  • Remembering Kingsland Station (1870-2025)

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    David Peter Alan

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    Saturday, June 7 was a cloudy day with rain showers; appropriate weather for the last day of service at a station that had served its community for 154½ years. Trains on NJ Transit’s “Main Line” stopped at Kingsland for the last time, as service ended early Sunday morning; the end of Saturday’s service day.            …

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  • Report from the Chair (Sept/Oct)

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    This fall has been relatively quiet transitwise in New Jersey so far; we made comments to the New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) on their 2050 plan; we were pleased to see a response not only from the NJTPA but also from NJ Transit itself.  We had called for passing sidings on all single-track lines,…

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  • What Is that Photo?

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    Citizen advocate Adam Reich recently brought to our attention a major flaw in NJ Transit’s social media: the lack of ALT text for many of their images, particularly problematical when they have text over the image. Web developers and designers know that for screen readers, text-over-image is not acceptable; basically, that configuration should not be…

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  • On the Rails with the Coalition

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    On Friday, May 20, folks from the Lackawanna Coalition teamed up with some folks from the Senior Citizens and Disabled Residents Transportation Advisory Committee (SCDRTAC) on an inspection trip on the Morris & Essex and Montclair-Boonton lines. We left from Newark Broad Street on the 2:16 P.M. Montclair-Boonton train and stopped in Dover for dinner…

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  • NJ Transit Tackles Accessibility—Not a Success

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    Accessibility—something important to all of us. Some, temporarily able-bodied, need not concern themselves with it on a daily basis, able to simply take for granted that their chosen mode of transportation will not present barriers to free travel. Any agency providing public service, however, must take into account the various barriers that people might find…

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  • Report from the Chair: July/August 2022

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    It has been a hectic month, including a wildcat strike that disrupted service for Juneteenth/Father’s Day weekend, with almost 500 engineers calling out, some 300 trains cancelled, and thousands of passengers scrambling to make alternate plans. NJ Transit filed a request for an injunction (on Friday) but did little to help passengers caught up in…

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