I meant your attachment to the current Dinky heavy rail operation, which is precluded from increasing trip numbers by NJTransit labor contract. Also, Arrow IIIs use $630,000 worth of propulsion power (NJT number) per year; LRVs just $20,000. Arrow IIIs: crew of two; LRVs, crew of one. Bottom line: yearly subsidy of more than $1 million vs. zero operating subsidy.
A trolley bus would delay or be delayed by other traffic, plus require a driver just like a regular bus, to say nothing of the capital cost of the OHL. Now that's a "huge waste of money".
Increasing Dinky service to meet all trains at the Junction (meeting 13 more, including 3 express trains) and meeting them from an origin in the center of town, all for $20 million would jump to the top for Federal funding, based on FTA's published decision criteria.