Lawmakers To Feds: Give $10 Million To NJ TRANSIT For Train Safety
Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez and 12 members of Congress made the request to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx after last month's train crash in Hoboken.
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Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez and 12 members of Congress made the request to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx after last month's train crash in Hoboken.
NJ TRANSIT has had more accidents and paid more in fines for safety violations than any other commuter railroad in the country over the past five years, federal safety data show.
There has been a plea for NJ TRANSIT to improve the safety at a train station following several fatal accidents.
Tracks 10 to 17 reopened for rail service, but Tracks 1 to 9 remain out of service as repair work continues.
Commuters who were on the NJ TRANSIT train that crashed at the Hoboken terminal will be allowed to retrieve their items they may have left behind.
NJ TRANSIT rail service remains partially suspended in and out of Hoboken following a deadly train crash. Some service out of Hoboken Terminal is set to resume Oct. 10.
Federal investigators revealed Thursday that a NJ TRANSIT train that crashed into Hoboken's terminal was going twice the speed limit at the moment of impact.
NJ TRANSIT has been blocking media access following the deadly train crash at the Hoboken terminal last week.
Crews are preparing to remove a NJ TRANSIT train from Hoboken Terminal, where it crashed a week ago killing 34-year-old Fabiola Bittar de Kroon and injuring more than 100 people, sources told CBS2.
NJ TRANSIT has released its service plan for Tuesday's commute.
Investigators haven't been able to extract a second data recorder, located in the cab control car in the front of the train, because it is under a collapsed section of the train station's roof.
NJ TRANSIT has released its service plan for Monday's commute following Thursday's deadly train crash in Hoboken.
One event recorder recovered so far from the NJ TRANSIT commuter train that crashed in Hoboken killing one and injuring more than 100 more was not functioning on the day of the crash, officials said Sunday.
Federal investigators said the crew is cooperating but they still are unable to get to the rail cars following the NJ TRANSIT train crash at the Hoboken terminal that left one woman dead and injured more than 100 people.
Chernetz puts NJ TRANSIT's woes smack dab on Gov. Chris Christie's doorstep. She said he's slashed state funds for the nation's third busiest commuter system by 90 percent in 11 years.
Fabiola Bittar de Kroon was the kind of person everyone loved, friends from her native Brazil said.
NJ TRANSIT'S rail service remains suspended in and out of Hoboken Friday, but the agency is expanding bus, rail and light rail service.
It happened around 8:45 a.m. Thursday as a NJ TRANSIT train was coming into the Hoboken station on track 5 from Spring Valley, New York on the Pascack Valley Line, the agency said.
Johnny Harris was on the train that struck the station Thursday morning, but he got off in Woodbridge just minutes before it made impact.
In the aftermath of the deadly NJ TRANSIT train crash, the community rallied together to provide comfort to first responders.
Moments after leaving the hospital, a passenger from the first car of the NJ TRANSIT train that slammed into a wall in the Hoboken station Thursday morning shares what he witnessed.
At least three people were killed and more than 100 injured when a NJ TRANSIT train crashed in Hoboken Thursday morning.
Christie said the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Railroad Adminstration will be investigating, along with law enforcement.
WFAN sportscaster John Minko was among those who witnessed Thursday morning's NJ TRANSIT train crash at the station in Hoboken and then ran for safety.
A NJ TRANSIT train struck a wall after entering the Lackawanna Station off of Hudson Place around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
