Jersey City Collects 15,000 Coats for the Homeless: Roughly 15,000 coats were collected in Jersey City as part of a statewide effort to collect 50,000 coat donations through the nonprofit Jersey Cares. Jersey City’s First Female Firefighter Promoted to Captain: Among 21 JCFD firefighters promoted to Capetian last weekwas Capt. Constance Zappella, the city’s first [...]
- West Side Avenue Post Office: The U.S. Postal Service, which earlier this year announced it may close the West Side Avenue, Jersey City branch, has sent out questionnaires asking customers to describe how frequently they use the location. – Tire Slashings: Jersey City police have released a video clip showing the man believed to [...]
- Red & Tan Cutting Bus Service: Bus company Red & Tan will cease operating their #99S and #4 buses starting in November, an action that could leave commuters scrambling to find alternative routes to work. – Epps: The Jersey City school district has released the seven-page settlement between the Board of Education and departing [...]
The NJ Transit Police Department and other agencies will conduct a training exercise this Saturday morning inside the Bergen Tunnels on the Jersey City/Hoboken border to test a response from multiple agencies to a simulated train incident. The drill, which will begin at about 9 am, will take about four hours to complete. Residents will [...]
- NJT Promises Bus Fares Won’t Rise: NJ Transit officials say they have no plans to increase bus fares, even though the toll that the agency will pay for buses to cross the Hudson River will increase by $6 per bus starting Sunday. – Deadly Motorcycle Crash: A man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a [...]
- Irene: The storm is still dominating the news. Here’s the latest information that we haven’t already covered: As the death toll from Hurricane Irene climbed to seven in New Jersey and 40 across the Eastern Seaboard Tuesday, rain-engorged rivers inflicted fresh damage and hardship across the state, washing out highways and chasing thousands more [...]
NJ Transit just announced that it will be running all its systems on a modified schedule tomorrow “as a result of residual impacts of Hurricane Irene.” The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail will be operating on a weekend schedule, and bus service will be on a “modified weekday schedule” with “fewer trips operating during peak periods on [...]
Jersey City will get a share of $158 million in federal Homeland Security money being allocated to programs all over New Jersey, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, announced yesterday. Here are some of the more notable programs being funded in our area: The Urban Area [...]
- PATH: Port Authority officials say that the proposed $1 fare hike on PATH trains will generate $75 million a year over the next 10 years to pay for more train cars and extending the platforms of some stations. Meanwhile, Gov. Christie says he will not rule out a fare and toll increase, saying he [...]
Do you ride NJ Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, its local buses, or its commuter rail? If so, the agency is looking for your opinion on its service, today rolling out the second of ongoing quarterly web-based customer satisfaction surveys. NJ Transit last month published the results of the first customer satisfaction survey, which asked customers [...]
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