COMMUTERS to New York received some overdue welcome news over the weekend. Anticipating substantial delays on Monday, New Jersey Transit pre-emptively allowed them to use their train tickets on private buses and ferries instead. By this point, rail-service interruptions had become so predictable that New Jerseyites were probably happy to traverse the Hudson River by boat. Four of the five workdays last week brought long delays on the line, largely the product of electrical failures in the octogenarian overhead wires running through the centenarian train tunnel under the Hudson.
Chris Christie, New Jersey’s governor, responded by excoriating Amtrak, which owns most of the tracks and equipment along the line, for its “indifference to New Jersey commuters and its abject neglect of the infrastructure that...Continue reading
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