The lack of engineers to run the trains – for anything as simple as a staffer calling in sick, taking a vacation day, or retiring – has become the source of delays, cancellations and overcrowded trains, sometimes dozens in a single day.īut in April, the agency reached the threshold of the 390 engineers it needed to keep operations running smoothly, with 393 in total. “I have to be honest … I underestimated the state of affairs at the agency when I arrived,” Kevin Corbett, NJ Transit’s chief executive officer, told lawmakers during a summer 2018 hearing at the statehouse in Trenton over the agency’s string of delays. The summer of 2018 laid bare the dire circumstances of the state agency, when commuters suffered more than two straight weeks of back to back delays, staffing shortages, equipment issues and cancellations. Phil Murphy delivers remarks at the Completion of Classroom Training Ceremony for New New Jersey Transit Engineers on June 11, 2021. Its led to a Regional Infrastructure crisis that is starting to choke the economy.Gov. The Govenor has appointed his friends who seem to know very little about Mass transit to run NJT, which has led to numerous other issues like leaving trains in flood prone areas during Sandy, lack of communication and planning to deal with basic emergencies, lack of planning to address system issues and future issues.Ĭhristie is not the only governor guilty of this, the Governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York have all done similar things with the various transit systems in their states. So the system not only needs more funding but it also needs to find qualified and skilled people to run it. Running on fumes and bleeding qualified / skilled workers. It used to receive a healthy 1.5 billion a year in funding, now its around 350-400 million. It comes from the gas tax and tolls but has been gutted severely under Christie over the last 7 years hes been in office. Wiki for commonly asked questions, places to visit, place to eat, etc
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