There goes my summer vacation to Hoboken.
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.
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?
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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
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.
Serves them well,
The electric train drivers should be replaced.
No big deal just look at them.
A real job would do them good.
And the replacements would raise the bar.
DOGEs fault
Perhaps if Dim Governor Murphy didn't flush so much $$ down the drain for windmills off the South Jersey coast, this state could've had 80 opened up by now. And the windmills boondoggle has now lost funding since Shell and Orsted have pulled out.
I guess I don’t need to ask why NJ is such a shathole.
At some point, bankruptcies are going to be the only way out of bloated union contracts, both current parolls and unfunded liabilities in the pension health insurance systems.
It won’t be limited to NJ Transit and similar subsidiary systems. Municipalities and states will follow.
It would be a shock, but it’s not the end of the world if retirees in a pension system that is 30 percent underfunded take a major haircut. They’ll still have richer pensions than most of the proles in the private sector. They’ll still have Medicare and can pay for their own Medigap coverage like the rest of us do. It’s long past time that public “servants” in states like NY, NJ, IL and CA rejoined the rest of America.
The important thing in the short run is that there be no federal bailouts. I’m not optimistic there. Trump just caved on the SALT deductions, and the MAGAbots on the Hill don’t have the backbone to hold the line there. Trump commands. They obey. Subsidize blue state democrat hellholes. MAGA!!!!
We’re doubling down on subsidizing the blue sinkhole because Trump is inclined to pander, and the political dynamics on public sector bailouts will be exactly the same. Just wait until the police, firefighters and teachers unions line up for their bailouts.
No bailouts. And then let’s keep focused on the replacement systems after bankruptcy. The bloated payrolls, bloated salaries, early retirement scams and insanely corrupt pension padding gimmicks have to end. The public sector in too many places is being run as a conspiracy against the public.
The schools should be privatized. There is no reason they can’t be run competitively. Police, fire protection, roads, rail transit, and water, sewer and electrical utilities involve natural monopoly situations and are more vulnerable to union extortion.
Does this mean folks in NJ may have to learn how to pump their own gas as well? The horror... They’ll never survive.
No reason to visit libtard NJ anyway.
You people know morning about NJ. We are going to be just fine. Why? Cause we have Governor Phil Murphy and when it comes to these challenges, HE IS ON IT!!
Soon we will all be happy and declare joy.
These government entities run monopolies, with all the ensuing problems attached.