Was really hoping for Fulop in the primary but i kinda knew it was a fool’s hope
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Same. The primary winning democratic candidate doesn’t seem too bad but Fulop wasn’t hiding that he wanted to kill or otherwise reduce the scope of the wasteful Turnpike project along with proposing major transit upgrades.
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This bridge project has had completion deadlines pushed and it seems they finally broke ground on the lift portion of the bridge. The approach spans have been completed for a while. This thing was started at a similar time as Portal yet that one is actually moving along nicely.
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- Train 3200, the 12:14 AM departure from Long Branch, will terminate at Newark Penn Station and is renumbered as Train 5200. Customers for Secaucus and New York may transfer to Train 3800 at Newark, arriving PSNY at 2:09 AM.
This instruction should make it clear that due to overnight Newark Pennsylvania Station security concerns, the transfer should be made at Newark Airport station and not at Newark Penn Station.
As someone who had the gross misfortune to connect at Newark Penn between two late-night trains, I hope and pray that the conductors onboard train 3200 are instructed to make the appropriate announcements to protect their passengers’ safety.
More new NJ Transit Trains coming in the year 2200.
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This is absolutely criminal. On LinkedIn, Alstom is announcing that the first handful of Multilevel III cars are finally nearing completion. The original contract to Bombardier (Alstom took them over) was awarded in 2018, with original delivery expected to be in 2024. In reality, it is alleged that they will come in 2026. NJT should go the route SEPTA did with CRRC and fire them for not delivering the product on time because over a billion dollars were wasted on junk that still isn’t ready. Absolute Crap and Garbage.
In addition, as they announce an almost $1 billion plan to upgrade the existing cars, with completion by 2036, the CEO decides to quit. These timeframes are ludicrous.
https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/commuterregional/njt-slates-917mm-multilevel-i-ii-overhaul/
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There is talk that the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail may actually get an extension to serve Bergen County. This has been stalled for a while but they’re finally taking steps to get preliminary things done such as an EIS.
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They already did an EIS for that extension back in 2007 
https://www.permits.performance.gov/proj/northern-branch/environmental-impact-statement-eis-0
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What are your all-time favorite New Jersey vaporware projects?
Here are my top five:
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HBLR 440 extension - The HBLR Route 440 Extension Project -
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HBLR Bergen County extension
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Extension to Andover NJ / Scranton PA? - Lackawanna Cut-Off
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North Brunswick train station on Northeast Corridor line - North Brunswick Train Station | Middlesex County NJ
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MOM Line - Monmouth Ocean Middlesex Line - Wikipedia
NJ Transit runs a very busy vaporware factory, so there are many other products out there that I’m not including. These are just my favorite five.
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No. 3 is actually happening (at least to Andover), but at a glacial pace. They actually rebuilt a tunnel and stuff along the line not too long ago.
Also the MultiLevel III cars and the half-built Raritan River bridge are also top contenders for NJ Transit vaporware.
The DMU light rail line from Hackensack to Paterson first announced in 2007 has a special place in my heart.
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I think it is crazy to me that the state of NJ has more viable deactivated rail routes for passenger service than most states have active passenger service routes.
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There’s at least two where I live. It’s insane since they’d actually have utility and help reduce beach traffic (especially during the summer). A number of these lines met their demise in the 1960s (at least for some by me) which is also around the time NJ started taking over a number of commuter services and the railroads such as the PRR, CNJ, Erie and Lackawanna started discontinuing their commuter trains due to low profitability.
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Is anyone surprised? I’m not. All the Congestion Pricing critics are silent with the proposed PATH fare increase.
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what is surprising, though, is that a private operator of a single “public” bus route survived until 2025, probably half a century after it should have gone out of business
A group of organized NIMBYs (which includes some mayors) want to go to a federal judge to pause affordable housing because they don’t want builders to create “high-density” construction in their towns.
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In Newark, the Penn Plaza building that is home to Horizon Blue Cross and former home to NJ Transit may undergo redevelopment in the future that includes a new 30-floor residential tower and a new tower for Horizon. In addition, developers have until December 31 to register interest in this project.
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an update on proposed new rail line south of Camden
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