Whatever kind of problem it is, it's still a problem. Where do the RVL trains go now, once they discharge their passengers at Newark Penn? Someplace where they don't have to cross NEC tracks to get? And what's the problem with running more trains on the Waterfront Connection? SomervilleRailfan wrote:Yes, but isn't this just a scheduling/dispatching problem? Granted, I don't work for any railroad, but surely something could be worked out to get RVL trains to Hoboken as the new terminus. Yet at this very time myopic Bureaucrats are wasting literally Billions on highways and notĮven supporting the trains we already have. New Jersey is blessed with incredible potential to support this change. The switch to mass transit which I have long supported and used myself as an Environmentalist Trains are packed and overcrowded and becoming more unsafe daily $5.00 per gallon 66% of people would make changes to their commute Yet the DOT head defends it even as he slashes NJ Transit trains.ģ)The Wall Street Journal reported the following:Īt $3.50 per gallon for gas 9% of people would make changes to their commute $350 Million!! As mass transit use soars when will the DOT get the idea that they should be fundingĢ)Tristate Transportation Commission reports that traffic on NJ Turnpike by Jamesburg is either flat orĭeclining and thus opposes spending $2 Billion on widening the NJ Turnpike there. In fact there was an article in the Morristown Daily Record where NJ Transit's own numbers showedĪs somebody who rides the rails daily I can see that with my own eyes - Hoboken trainsĪt the same time my fellow regular train riders are reporting SRO conditions on many trainsĮspecially with the recent problems due to climate change.Īre Midtown's packed because everyone wants to go to Midtown or because the Hoboken optionġ)$149 Million slated for GSP to #78 interchange - the total budget for NJ Transit Operations is Why would any engineer plan for a single point of failure like the Midtown tunnel?Īnd these cuts have absolutely NOTHING to do with "declining ridership". Then we had the heat wave which caused all sorts of disruptions.Īnd just a few days ago the aftermath of the storm which finally blew away the heat wave.
Routing everything through one tenuous tunnel to Midtown.Ī few Mondays back the Midtown service was delayed for an hour or so. In the last few weeks regular train riders have witnessed graphic illustrations of the problems of
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