Commuter Rail
2024 Marked NJ Transit’s Second-Worst Summer Under Gov. Murphy
NJ Transit faced the second worst “summer of hell” of Gov. Phil Murphy’s tenure this year, with its more than 1,800 train cancellations driven mostly by mechanical issues, Amtrak, and a rising number of unpreventable stoppages, according to agency performance data. The 1,820 cancellations NJ Transit reported between June 1 and Aug. 31 outnumber those in the same three-month period of every year of Murphy’s time in office except the summer of 2020, when damage from a tropical storm entirely stopped trains on multiple NJ Transit rail lines, in some cases for days. NJ Transit spokesman Jim Smith acknowledged Amtrak as
