It's been going downhill since at least 2018. I used to take the train to college

It’s very good everywhere except the NEC and tunnel. Amtrak owns that territory and they’ve been falling apart and gumming everything up.

3 times in the past 5 months or so (I only go in to ny like 1-3 times every 6 or so weeks), the train is about to leave penn and they announce that everyone has to get off because the train can’t leave the station due to an issue

Yes. Covid did not help the transportation industry financially.

NJ Transit has been hot buttered garbage for years.

let's be real, even when things were good they did nothing to inprove their trains or infrastructure whatsoever.

True. But covid did not help either.

They were one of the best commuter railroads in the nation before the previous administration ran them into the ground and under funded them.

OTOH, it’s been ~5 years (2017) since Governor Murphy’s been in office that the fares haven’t increased, so there’s some merit in that. Could be optimistic or a pipe dream bus/train/light rail fares wouldn’t have a fare hike throughout his 3 remaining years, but one can dream given the current plans for expansion, and acquiring new e-buses, new rail cars (& expanding routes), and maybe something in store for the 3 light rail networks. Not to mention the gradual increase in pay for workers (& professionals) of NJ Transit, pensions, placating labor union concerns, etc.

However the transit agency’s always been shafted for years, and it’s been a recurring joke. Maybe 2023 would see a visible rebound?

My thought is, did they ever recover from losing all that equipment in Sandy?

Better than the 2018-0219 shitfest but worse than before Christie who slashed their budget

Happened to me last Saturday!

And then everyone has to pile in to an already crowded train so I end up just waiting for the next one 🥸

And we rewarded that administration by re-electing them in a landslide

What’s this “we”?

The state of NJ that we are all apart of

We're all in this together

I commute to Newark from Central Jersey or North Jersey 4 days a week since april 2021, and haven't had a delay in a very long time.

Except I don't use the tunnel at NY Penn.

The NJCL, RVL, and Morristown/Essex Lines have been great. NJCL in the summer, RVL and Morristown at least once each week for different office visits.

The last delay or cancelation I remember was the strike this summer, but I took the path to Newark and Ubered home, so not that big of deal. At most I've had a 5 minute delay or the app stopped working but the trains were still running.

They are decades behind in maintenance and funding thanks to the previous republican administration. They used to have one of the best track records around. They are actually getting better, however now that they have funding again, a lot of their equipment is being overhauled and repaired since it was put off for so long, leaving fewer engines in rotation for when something goes wrong.

The tunnel is where a lot of delays happen, which ripple throughout the NEC, and beyond. The infrastructure is over a century old and maintenance is always kicked down the road. Things are finally being funded but there is A LOT of backlog to catch up on.

That sounds interesting, do you have any sources to back that up so I can learn more?

Not sure but I can confidently say Newark Penn is getting worse. That place is brutal

Go google it, readily available

clearly it's the royal we in this case. i didn't vote for that fat fuck either time.

the last time njt was mostly reliable was basically 2009. guess who happened to get elected that year and proceeded to slash and burn njt's budget to the bone in order to fuel his political ambitions by trying to make suburban nimbys happy.