He said that because Amtrak created the issue, NJ Transit is “keeping options open” in order to recoup costs from Amtrak.
That fare cut, and cross-honoring for passengers who take alternate routes to get into New York City, could cost the state budget as much as $15 million for fiscal year 2018, Santoro said. He called on Amtrak to include NJ Transit in the decision-making process in the future to avoid similar issues.Ĭhristie last week announced a plan to cut fares as much as 63 percent for affected commuters. “New Jersey Transit was not aware of the level of degradation that exists right now at New York Penn Station,” Santoro said. Critics say although Amtrak owns and operates Penn Station, Christie also has been neglecting NJ Transit for years. The imminent traffic morass this summer while Amtrak repairs a series of tracks has become one of the biggest issues for New Jersey lawmakers and gubernatorial candidates this year. Steve Santoro, the executive director of NJ Transit, testified that his agency had not been made aware of the most recent rail issues until two train derailments earlier this year shined a spotlight on the frayed conditions at New York Penn Station. This came just weeks after a June 27 press conference by Murphy, NJ Transit President and CEO Kevin Corbett, and other officials in which the agency said it had seen a 47 percent decrease in train cancellations over the first three months of 2019 and outlined its improvement efforts.
A poll released this week by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University found that three-quarters of New Jersey residents have no idea the election is about to happen.Gordon (left) and McKeon. Unmentioned was the fact that some of the officeholders who spoke Friday, including Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, D – Secaucus, are up for reelection on Tuesday. “We’re going to start talking about that Monday, so now’s the time to advance any projects we feel should be part of it,” Pascrell said. The group got together in advance of discussions scheduled for next week in Congress next week about a bill to fund transportation construction projects for the next five years, after years of political deadlock that resulted in one short-term patch after another. This effort is separate from one to extend the Hudson Bergen Light Rail into Bergen County. Two dozen elected Democrats from across New Jersey gathered Friday morning in Paterson to announce a new coalition that will push to bring NJ Transit trains to a rail line through Bergen and Passaic counties that has not seen passenger service since the 1960s.Īn earlier effort to bring passenger trains back to the line died in 2008, at least partly due to the recession that started that year, said Congressman Bill Pascrell, D – Paterson, who led Friday’s event.
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