NJ TRANSIT Service Changes In Effect As Crews Install Safety Upgrades
Called Positive Train Control, the mandatory hardware and software is being installed on all NJ TRANSIT trains and is expected to take until next year.
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Called Positive Train Control, the mandatory hardware and software is being installed on all NJ TRANSIT trains and is expected to take until next year.
Starting Monday, service will be reduced on several NJ TRANSIT lines until next year to allow crews to install positive train control equipment on locomotives and cab cars.
NJ TRANSIT officials are looking into a bus driver recorded counting money with his hands off the wheel while driving on a busy highway.
The meeting is being called a "We Are Listening" forum.
Despite delays and other issues, New Jersey Transit has been named one of the best places to work in the country
NJ TRANSIT is supposed to have a crash prevention system, called positive train control, installed on all of its trains by the end of the year.
New Jersey Transit says it will temporarily shut down and limit some train service as it works to install a federally mandated safety system by a Dec. 31 deadline.
The trouble began at around 9 a.m. and was blamed on Amtrak overhead wire problems.
Trains on the Babylon, Hempstead, West Hempstead and Far Rockaway lines are now running on or close to schedule.
New York Waterway and NJ TRANSIT are challenging the city's plan to fully connect the walkways along Sinatra Drive.
Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road and NJ TRANSIT are all planning normal service Thursday, but say weather-related delays are possible.
NJ TRANSIT says trains were suspended during the morning rush after Amtrak's Portal Bridge was stuck in the open position.
Gov. Phil Murphy sat down with CBS2's Meg Baker for a one-on-one interview following NJ TRANSIT's monthly board meeting Wednesday.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy once called New Jersey Transit a national disgrace. On Tuesday, he unveiled his plan to fix it.
Service was suspended for a time and riders were facing delays of up to 60 minutes during the morning rush.
The second nor'easter in less than a week has disrupted service for Metro-North, NJ TRANSIT and Amtrak.
While flight activity is continuing at area airports, hundreds of flights have been canceled.
NJ TRANSIT says riders are facing delays up to 60 minutes in and out of Penn Station Thursday morning.
The driver of a NJ TRANSIT bus died Tuesday evening after an earlier head-on collision with a garbage truck in Essex County.
Amtrak President and CEO Richard Anderson told a House subcommittee on Thursday Amtrak is worried passengers are being put at risk by delays in installing the technology that's designed to prevent crashes.
Could some relief finally be on the way for NJ TRANSIT riders?
Some train service was suspended into and out of Penn Station late Sunday afternoon due to a power outage.
The NTSB released a report Tuesday on the NJ TRANSIT crash in Hoboken in September 2016 and the LIRR crash at Atlantic Terminal in January 2017.
Kevin Corbett awaits approval by the NJ TRANSIT board.
The New York area has seen derailment after derailment, yet a potentially life saving device still hasn't been installed on the rails.
