Why Does NJ Transit Keep Canceling Trains?

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 GETTING AROUND [Why Does NJ Transit Keep Canceling Trains?]( The reliably unreliable commuter system is 16 times more likely to face breakdowns than Metro-North is. Photo: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/Getty Images Stuck in the dark, hundreds of people were crammed aboard the 7:20 p.m. New Jersey Transit train to Trenton on July 31, as it sat in the tunnel beneath the Hudson River. They just wanted to get back to their homes in the suburbs, and the railroad that they depended on failed them in epic fashion, leaving them stuck under the river for two full hours. In an extra indignity, they’d bought their tickets just after a 15 percent fare increase on July 1, meant to patch NJ Transit’s threadbare post-pandemic finances. NJ Transit blamed Amtrak because [its ancient power system had failed](. Amtrak blamed NJ Transit because its 50-year-old train wouldn’t start after the electricity came back on. Afterwards, the commuter railroad nonetheless defended itself. An unidentified spokesman wrote the following email to a reporter, recently obtained under New Jersey’s open-records law: “NJ TRANSIT operates nearly 700 trains a day, and our latest on-time performance data from June indicates our trains were on-time 83% of the time, adjusted to 92.3% when you account for issues related to Amtrak infrastructure. This is far from disastrous.” They might as well have decided to challenge the existence of gravity. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. The Latest [The Phone-Detox Amenity At the all-electric 505 State Street, residents are asked to unplug.]( By Kim Velsey [Chobani House Is Coming The company is leasing every floor of 360 Bowery and carving out part of it as a laboratory for nonprofits.]( By Clio Chang [This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Ten-foot-high windows and the good kind of duplex.]( By Nora DeLigter [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved