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Weekend hourly service Hoboken-MSU.

Half-hourly Weekend Morristown Line Service

Late night NEC service

More NJCL express service

That sounds like a solution looking for a problem. What's so crazy about giving a high-density urban corridor service more in line with its neighborhood, while speeding up commutes for those farther out in the suburbs? A diesel push-pull with 6 gallery cars starting and stopping every 4 blocks soun...

The funding disparity between the MTA and NJ Transit has shown up recently in greatly improved LIRR and Metro-North service while NJT stays the same/regresses. It is rather frustrating that MTA gets full control of the bridges/tunnels (and associated revenues) over the East River (in addition to a d...

The provincialism between NJ and NY is putting a drain on efficacy and productivity in the region as a whole. NYC is the only metropolitan area in the country with such fragmented transportation administration. St. Louis makes Metrolink work on both sides of the Mississippi, and WMATA functions seam...

I'm glad this is finally going forward in a way that includes Englewood. To Hell with Tenafly. HBLR is going to be important for "metropolitanizing" Jersey City, making it a true commercial and cultural anchor for the west shore of the Hudson and helping NJ catch up to NYC in economic reco...

What if the Beverly Branch was converted into rapid-transit style service with DMUs (or even EMUs if funding permits!) running into Millenium Station and Main line service remain in LaSalle Street? It would solve both the speed problems and terminal capacity problems on the RI currently.

Systems I've travelled on I'd say MNCR wins overall, running the most express service, and quality off-peak and weekend schedules, but they also have the easiest job, having inherited close to the ideal physical infrastructure in a terminal to call their own, and multiple multi-track mainlines that ...

Honestly, i never knew why they moved that train up. Probably has to do with the fact that the scheduling brass are the older crowds for whom a trip into NYC means dinner and an 8 PM show, forgetting all of the younger people taking advantage of the 24-hour city. A new 3 AM train on the NEC would be...

My point, which seems to be lost, is that there was a problem at Teterboro. Specifically, trespassers were illegally crossing the tracks, often directly in front of trains. NJ Transit acted upon this problem by cutting off illegal access to the tracks from the railroad south side (geographic west)....

There was one trip scheduled each mid-day to deadhead from Parkesburg to Lancaster and reverse there. That was to keep crews qualified over that stretch of railroad in case the hand-operated crossover at Leaman Place was out of service. IIRC, the station at Parkesburg was out past the interlocking....

The original daylight Pennsylvanian went west at 745a but was a local NYP-PHL. Running it NWK-TRE-PHL would save a little time. I'd like to see a second westbound departure around 1p-2p. Eastbound, I think a daily 42 schedule and 44 schedule would work well. I bet originating and terminating at New...

Besides accomodating those 4,000 current riders, the extension would get thousands more who currently drive two switch to using public transportation, taking cars off of the road. This extension is phase one of an ultimate plan to densify KOP and make it a proper regional center along the lines of T...

As far as Mountain Station goes, it has a small but well-connected group of commuters. It was a lot more popular before Midtown Direct caused anyone going to Midtown to switch to using South Orange. The private school kids using the station are mainly from Seton Hall Prep and Marylawn. Prep is alrea...

that would probably go a long way in solving the problems. Just saying suck it up is not good enough. Guess that was a bit half hearted of me to just come off the way i did. I know alot of people tend to get off and on at south orange but i wasnt aware that it had the highest ridership on the whole...

Resurrecting an old thread here. Peak LIRR ridership was in the 1920s before the IND Queens Boulevard Line opened. Service within Queens was at essentially rapid-transit like levels and the riders that would soon switch to the subway were still using LIRR trains.