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Friday, November 16, 2012

UPDATE: Midtown Direct Resumes Regular Service Monday

Beginning Monday, Midtown Direct service is back to a regular schedule. NJT will operate nearly 90 percent of normal peak service.

  Update, 11/16 6:12 p.m.: According to the NJ Transit website, effective Monday, Nov. 19, Midtown Direct service between Dover and New York will operate on a regular schedule. (The Gladstone Branch service remains suspended until further notice.) Updated schedules will be posted by 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18. The release continued: "...all but one NJ TRANSIT rail lines will be running full or modified service effective Monday, November 19.  This includes the restoration of service along the North Jersey Coast Line, which suffered the brunt of the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy."   Additionally, with the completion of repairs to a key Amtrak-owned electrical substation in Kearny that will generate additional power to the Northeast …

Philip Ryan

1:00 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Time to get the Jitney up and running with NJT's new schedule. The Wyoming line was not functional this morning, which is inexcusable at this point. Meanwhile, buses still wait and leave half-empty from Oakview Ave as customers pile up at the station waiting for late, terribly overcrowded trains.   more ›

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