Riders and officials are rooting for what they consider to be “no-brainer” and “common sense” improvements to the PATH train system. The list starts with more trains.
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With airports and airlines experiencing delays and cancellations, and staffing shortfalls at national parks, here’s what to know before you go.
Could gas pricers already have peaked even before the busy summer season has started? Two gas and oil analysts agreed that the highest prices consumers will pay this summer will be at the beginning of the season and will not be budget busters preventing a road trip.
As promised, the New Jersey Department of Transportation reopened two lanes on Interstate 80 eastbound in Wharton on May 21. The highway had been closed by a sinkhole and subsequent repairs.
NJ TRANSIT is back on track — literally. Trains are up and running and have resumed their normal schedules following the first rail strike in decades in New Jersey.
NJ TRANSIT officials have extended the expiration dates on monthly passes and tickets for passengers whose rail tickets expired during a locomotive engineers strike that was settled Sunday night.
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The NJ Transit strike is over after the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) approved a deal Sunday, but train service will not immediately resume. The engineers strike has halted trains across New Jersey for four days. The deal comes as relief to hundreds of thousands of riders who rely on the system that brings commuters to New York City and Philadelphia.
The North Jersey transportation news isn't all horrible. As rail commuters cope with an NJ Transit strike that began at midnight and Newark Airport endures delays and measles scares, motorists may get some long-awaited relief next week on Route 80.
NJ Transit locomotive engineers walked off the job just after midnight Friday, as a work stoppage brought to a halt a service used by 350,000 commuters.
NJ TRANSIT officials approved a plan to purchase $2.733 billion in new rail cars and locomotives that would effectively retire the agency's entire older, breakdown prone rail fleet, by 2031.
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