A week of free rides on New Jersey Transit’s trains and buses started Monday, a “fare holiday” meant to appease customers enraged after a summer of service suspensions and interruptions.
New Jersey Assemblyman Brian Bergen panned Gov. Phil Murphy’s NJ Transit fare holiday announced Thursday, saying the last thing commuters need is a free week of hell.
State Sen. Angela V. McKnight, D-Hudson, commended NJ Transit for implementing an emergency bus service plan in Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson counties for routes abandoned by Coach USA with limited advance notice.
In light of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s considering Republican calls to conduct an updated audit of NJ Transit, Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco is calling for the formation of a bipartisan coalition to set politics aside and address NJ Transit’s ongoing structural and operational issues.
New Jersey Assemblyman Christopher P. DePhillips, a member of the Assembly Transportation Committee, is calling for a bipartisan, bicameral hearing to hold NJ Transit to account.
Eight members of New Jersey’s House delegation urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to deploy federal infrastructure funds to make urgent upgrades to tracks and overhead wires that have snarled trains in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Friday.
NJ Transit’s Board of Directors has approved the purchase of 36 additional Multilevel III rail cars that offer increased seating capacity, mechanical reliability and improved customer amenities.
President Joe Biden named three members to a presidential emergency board that will oversee the latest round of negotiations between NJ Transit and a locomotive engineers union that has been working under an expired contract since 2019.