It’s the economy, stupid.
That’s why the number of public transportation trips in New Jersey and across the United States decreased in 2009, according to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), which on Monday released its annual report on transit-riding statistics.
The total number of trips across the country fell to 10.2 billion in 2009, a 3.8 [...]
- Running Out of Snow $$: The head of the Jersey City Incinerator Authority says that after this current storm, the agency may only have $100,000 or so left to clear snow. The same situation is being felt in municipalities all over New Jersey, and the region, as we’ve been hit with more snow than [...]
The German company Siemens says a consortium that it leads has signed a $321 million contract with the Port Authority to modernize and automate the PATH system, increasing rider capacity from 240,000 to 290,000 passengers a day by 2017.
The contract covers the implementation of a new Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) on the system, which Siemens [...]
Last week the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey a draft 2010 budget that reflects the bleak economic picture.
The economic crisis has hurt the agency, and it predicts total income to be down 5.4 percent in 2010 from 2009.
“The Port Authority is not recession-proof,” executive director Chris Ward says in a statement. [...]
In 2005, the Port Authority opened a $12.5 million entrance to the Grove Street PATH station. But to the disabled and accessibility advocates, the addition was missing one key component: an elevator. Now one Jersey City resident and local nonprofits are fighting in court for better accommodations.
Editor’s note: When we saw that one of our Twitter followers was starting to figure out how best to navigate the PATH system on crutches, we thought it would be a good opportunity to share one person’s experience with the woeful lack of accessibility at many PATH stations. This is Marc Frydman’s wrap-up of his [...]
Last week the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized an additional $2 million for planning the replacement of the PATH train’s s No. 8 substation east of the New Jersey Turnpike in Kearny. The substation converts high-voltage power into usable levels for the trains.
The PATH system has [...]
Editor’s note: When we saw that one of our Twitter followers was starting to figure out how best to navigate the PATH system on crutches, we thought it would be a good opportunity to share one person’s experience with the woeful lack of accessibility at many PATH stations. Marc Frydman will be sharing his commuting [...]
Plenty of New Jersey baseball fans were overjoyed last night when the Yankees won their 27th World Series. (Me, not so much, as a Mets fan. Yes, you can jeer.)
Anyway, the traditional ticker-tape parade is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 11 am in Lower Manhattan, and to help keep the train traffic running smoothly, [...]
- Ward E councilman Steven Fulop and two North Hudson state Senators say they will work as best they can with incoming governor Chris Christie. Meanwhile, the Insider notes that U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez may have had the most to lose from Christie’s election.
- In the ‘what went wrong?’ department, the Star-Ledger expands on the [...]
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