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Posted on 05/16/2025 2:19:32 AM PDT by Libloather
This ain’t your garden-variety travel headache.
New Jersey is on pace for a nightmare summer spanning planes, trains and automobiles — as sinkhole-ridden highways, persistent chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport and a likely transit strike threaten to upend travel plans at the worst possible time.
And there are no easy, or quick solutions in sight.
As the clock ticked down Thursday to the first NJ Transit rail strike in 40 years, one expert told The Post that efforts to remedy the labor dispute — which would see 350,000 daily riders stranded — are the lucrative contracts being handed out by the MTA just across the river.
But even if a last-minute deal is reached, the confluence of problems has made the Garden State ground zero for delays, traffic jams and flight cancelations — with the potential for even more in the pipeline.
Either way, Jersey commuters are having to build in more time to get into the city — and shell out even more money for tolls, cabs or parking.
“I don’t have the option to work from home,” said Lisa Monroe, 53, who takes NJ Transit trains into New York City five days a week.
Between tolls, congesting pricing and parking, she’ll have to pay $425 a week to get to work if the trains stop, she estimates — and she’s not sure she can afford it.
“Honestly, I don’t know what I’m going to do. It sounds like I’m going to be paying a lot of money,” she said.
Trouble on NJ Transit NJ Transit has suffered cascading problems in recent years, from an aging fleet of trains, chronic reliability issues, cost overruns and a more than $750 million budget hole.
The agency, which has proposed a $3.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2026, Friday morning.
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There goes my summer vacation to Hoboken.
“It’s going to be ugly”. It’s NJ It’s supposed to be ugly. I used to live there
Traversing northern New Jersey sucks on the best of days. The optimum time to get through there is between midnight and 4a. After that it’s a real 💩 show. I’m glad I do not have to touch that road system in my truck anymore.
Unless your travel plans include NYC or Long Beach Island, the rest of New Jersey’s destination points are in the central and southern parts of the state. Hopefully they aren’t affected by the disaster that is North Jersey.
I do have a bit of sympathy - not much, mind you, but a bit - for the people that will be affected by the striking transit employees. The commuters have been guilted, shamed, and conditioned to rely on that system to meet their commuting needs. Now they don’t have a viable alternative if the system stops. It’s going to get expensively ugly real soon.
“suffered cascading problems in recent years, from an aging fleet of trains, chronic reliability issues, cost overruns “
My Dad rode the Lackawanna to NYC in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Things haven’t changed much since his day.
If only they had elected democrats, then everything would have been perfect.
New Jersey? GET ugly? Now that’ll be ugly to the tenth power instead of just to the fifth.
Ah, the joys of living in a democrat controlled blue state. Leave if you must, but please don’t bring your political idiocy here to my state.
Oh. Crashed my plans too to visit the NE United States this summer. Can’t fly in, can’t drive. The Piney Woods are burning.
Prayers for those effected. I think I’ll just stay out here in Western flyover country.
I’d go to Rhode Island for seafood, but they talk kinda funny and there IS NO hot sauce. Tapa Tio, Cholula, Tobasco, or even Frank’s or Texas Pete’s.
Trouble on NJ Transit NJ Transit has suffered cascading problems in recent years, from an aging fleet of trains, chronic reliability issues, cost overruns and a more than $750 million budget hole. …Oh? The oldest multi-level cars are just 19 years old. Used to be that there were railcars over half a century old and still rolling reliably well; but that seems to have gone away along with domestic railcar manufacturing. Reliability issues? What, with the junk locomotives they were forced to buy when the stupid FRA (Federal RR Administration) emissions standards kicked in, which knocked the two-stroke diesel locomotives off the rails and induced NJT to get those unreliable “dual-power” clunkers?
CC
Most of the PDRNJ (People’s Democratic Republic of New Jersey) is a sinkhole.
In other words a normal day in dim controlled hell holes
Oddly enough, Ocean County, NJ, which is on the Jersey Shore, is the most politically conservative county north of central Virginia and east of the Allegheny foothills. The county voted for Trump by a 2:1 margin last year. However, as in most blue states, leftist controlled urban counties dominate the state.
Pennsylvania should trade Killadelphia (aka West Camden) for Ocean County. Both states would benefit.
The article doesn’t talk about the INVISIBLE ARMY of retired workers that NJ Transit has to pay, due to the UNION contracts New Jersey was forced to sign.
Easy....
Hey now.
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pssst... Old Bay
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