Lackawanna Coalition

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Tag: Delays

  • A Hoboken Cure for the Midtown Woes

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    Donald Winship

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    Does it seem like almost every other day that there is a delay on trains to New York?  Based on data from NJ Transit’s e-mail alerts, there have been delays, more often than every third day, reported to this rider, whose home station is Mount Tabor, on the M&E Line west of Morristown!  In the 92 days from Oct.…

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  • NJT On-Time Performance Declines

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    John Bobsin

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    Delays to NJ Transit trains are increasing, and commuters are not happy, according to reporting by Mike Frassinelli in the Star-Ledger (March 14).  In all but one of the last 9 months, Frassinelli writes, NJT fared worse than in the previous year.  February, in fact, was the worst month for train delays in 18 years,…

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  • Train Delays Top Priority for NJT: Riders

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    John Bobsin

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    Even as Veronique Hakim waited to be appointed NJ Transit’s new Executive Director, users of the state’s vast public transit system had some early advice for her, according to Larry Higgs, reporting in the Asbury Park Press and other Gannett newspapers: make the trains run on time, and stop the delays that have plagued riders…

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  • Winter Woes Ad Nausuem

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    Donald Winship

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    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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  • M-N, NJT Snarled on Successive Days

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    John Bobsin

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    Outbound New York commuters in the evening rush were seriously affected by problems on successive days.  First, on Thursday, January 23, Metro-North’s entire system ground to a halt for about 2 hours, starting at 7:45 p.m., according to reporting by Matt Flegenheimer and Emma G. Fitzsimmons in The New York Times (Jan. 24). The railroad’s…

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  • 1000 Stranded by Downed Wire

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    John Bobsin

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    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.…

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  • Train Late? MTA Writes Excuse Notes

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    John Bobsin

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    If your subway train is late in New York, your boss may not understand, and a note from Mom may not further your career.  However, in New York City, there’s an alternative: the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will be happy to write the excuse note, and Mom won’t have to after all. Over the last…

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  • Aging Infrastructure Blamed for NJT Delays

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    John Bobsin

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    Aging infrastructure, and the lack of cash to fix it, particularly on the Northeast Corridor, are cited as a main cause of service delays on NJ Transit, according to reporting by Karen Rouse and Dave Sheingold of The Record (reported in the Star-Ledger,  August 8).  An NEC commuter is quoted as saying that conductors frequently…

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  • NJDOT Chief Wants to Work on Reliability

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    John Bobsin

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    This article was published in the Asbury Park Press. It is quoted here as a matter of interest, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Lackawanna Coalition. If it takes a village to raise a child, maybe it takes a transportation commissioner riding the trains to make them run on time? New Jersey…

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  • Winter Aggravates Train Delays

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    Donald Winship

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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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