(Bloomberg) -- Dayna Nicles’ commute from Montclair, New Jersey, to Manhattan, where she works in customer service, should take roughly 45 minutes.Most Read ...
-- Dayna Nicles’ commute from Montclair, New Jersey, to Manhattan , where she works in customer service , should take roughly 45 minutes.Instead, her trip in recent weeks has stretched as long as two-and-a-half hours, riddled by a spate of canceled trains and delays on New Jersey Transit , which is raising fares on Monday for the first time in nearly a decade.“Every day, it’s delayed.
And now, NJ Transit riders are confronting higher fares with a 15% hike on all rail, bus and light-rail tickets effective Monday. US Representative Mikie Sherrill, who represents a district in North Jersey, called for the agency to pause the increase until service is more reliable. Williams is referring to a short strip of railway between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City that shuttles thousands of people each day. The US East Coast commuter rail structure comes to a choke point at that juncture, where both NJ Transit and Amtrak trains have to pass through a century-old tunnel to enter Manhattan. Even a minor disruption to that fragile operation ripples across both agencies, causing headaches for riders from Washington, DC, to Boston.
Aaron Donovan, a spokesperson for the MTA, attributed that increase to categories beyond the authority’s control like people on the tracks and medical emergencies. That will only make it more difficult for the MTA to provide reliable service and attract more riders back, with some transit advocates warning the system may revert back to 2017’s infamous “Summer of Hell,” when chronic delays left customers waiting for hours.
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