I’m a computer.

So to clear the air and because this project is at the top of my list I did a lot of research on it. So technically the first two towers should be the ones to get built since they were approved first. The original design was only to towers. When the design changed they also added the third tower and later got the third tower approved. So they decided to build the third tower first along with tower 1 and 2 parking podiums. Right now tower 3 is under construction, tower 1 and 2 are likely to break ground between 2025 or 2027. When they do break ground both towers will be built at the same time instead of one by one. I am guessing since they are the tallest they would need more than the 90 million dollar loan for the third tower. So the first two towers are already approved and can be built at anytime but for right now tower 3 will be the only one. Treat this project as the journal square towers and how each got built at different times etc etc. Towers 1 and 2 will exist in our skyline before 2030, let’s just hope their cousin on broad street can get approved and exist too. Also whoever picked none of the towers will get built is crazy 😂

First tower soon. The other two will take so long we will doubt it will happen but then it will.

They did during rush hours. About every 10 mins or better to/from Bloomfield, 3-5 to/from Franklin Ave. Every 10-12 is ridiculous.

Some people just work hard. Especially immigrants!

from my personal experiences, during rush hour, they have been. if I would miss a train, within 3 mins, but no more than 5, another train would show up.

I have been taking the light rail since going to rutgers, so since fall of 2021

Why do they even bother releasing renders for these anymore.

Just say "It's a five over one, you know what it looks like".

Its the same woman that owns IHOP franchises and that Urban Vegan and southern place. I just wonder where someone gets the money to start up a business like that, her parents came to the US first before her and her brother left I think so they must have been cooking something up (no pun intended).

>instead of trains running every 3-5 mins as they should

Has this ever actually been the case? I don't remember trains ever coming that frequently.

Almost all train systems have some type of signalling system. The Newark light rail system has signals at any level crossing like Franklin Avenue and Orange Street. Any place where there is switch/crossover for trains to change tracks (these are fairly numerous), go in and out terminals and yards. Additionally I believe the Light Rail uses a block signal system of sorts.

My route from my town has been back to normal at least since late 2021 but the express bus and trains are still well below pre-pandemic levels despite the population growth.

Doesn't matter who leads it, developers will cut cost and always go with the cheapest options. All this means is that this person has capital.

Black women developers………

Good to know. It’s been a while since I’ve even rode the thing after moving away and back.

signals matter near penn because the two lines cross over each other

It was closed throughout the weekend for track work, so it may be residual effects/operational modifications.

Lmao u are not getting my point whatsoever but ok man. I have lived in NYC, Brooklyn, and JC and just saying, Newark has a very high cost of living for what you're actually getting. Regardless of the amenities in your apartment etc. The city is constantly covered in trash yet they price DT Newark as if its Grove Street.

And to add: I lived in a comparable apartment everywhere I live, so no I didn't choose to live in a shitty NYC apartment and then move to Newark just to complain about rent prices.

If youre on the east side, along the 4/5/6, it takes forever from Newark

The light rail doesn't share tracks with anything else, so unless it crosses a street I am not sure about signals... maybe signal for a car ahead. I think them working out frequency and all that with more people going back to work/school might have more to do with it. Plenty of people probably decided to move to the suburbs or other places along public transit during the pandemic as well.

Still doesn't look as bad as when I used to take the light rail home after working downtown and a hockey game let out. Just picture the car filled with drunken people in red jerseys chanting and spilling beer on you packed in like sardines.

maybe just maybe the weather plays a factor as most dont want to get wet/mist in their face etc.

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It doesn't, but the commute to midtown and definitely downtown faster from the ironbound than from above 125th st. Depends where you are going though obv.

On buses people would stand during rush hour pre-pandemic as well, both in to and out of the city.

instead of trains running every 3-5 mins as they should during rush hour, they were running every 10-12. That’s a very big gap

idk anything abt the signals. The NJT website said they were working on them until further notice

I’ve overheard (on a bus, LOL) that NYC-bound NJT buses tend to get packed with people standing in the middle because NJT schedule has yet to adjust to pre-pandemic levels. Might be the same with rail and light rail?