New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy last month signed legislation officials say reforms N.J. Transit’s governance and management.
The measure is a bid to improve service and reliability for commuters. It includes reforms to the transit agency’s board of directors that advocates say will make it more responsive to commuters; it also creates customer advocate and chief ethics officer positions within the agency.
“These reforms will bring about a modernized agency easily and transparently held accountable by the public,” New Jersey Assemblywoman Patricia Egan Jones, a Democrat, said in a news release. “It places N.J. Transit on the path to once again to become an effective, reliable source of public transportation which thousands of commuters and New Jersey residents rely on.”
The legislation also expands public and state legislature oversight of N.J. Transit, institutes regular disclosure of accident and safety performance reports and strengthens whistleblower protections, advocates say.
