I don't think a huge parking lot is planned for West Chester it's considered a city stop and SEPTA seems to want to trend away from large parking lots in favor of TOD stations. The City and County are actively pushing for service to restart so it's more or less a funding issue. I am somewhat hopefully that the new Governor gives more funding to agency along with getting the feds to fund the backlog of large projects.

Maybe they could be convinced to buy Hydrogen powered MU trains , a few systems out west bought them. The recent proposals call for service to be restored back to Quakertown and then see if there's even more demand to justify restoring all the way to Allentown.

Metro North has way higher levels of service , most busier stations on the Electrified lines see a train every 20 mins most of the day , the less busy stations see a train every 45 mins. LIRR is similar to NJT with its service levels... Metro North pre pandemic ridership was 310,000 , LIRR was 350,000 and NJT was 290,000...

They usually leave from the same Island platform at Secaucus so it's not a big deal, and Hoboken is the terminus, so you just look at the departure board.

I'm shocked that they were allowed to get away with that because the town had spent money upgrading the sidewalks and pushing the DOT to make the crossing at 17 safer to cross. Its not an expensive thing to put in a pedestrian crossing...

The 90s plan had a proposal for service every 10 mins during peak hour and 30mins offpeak. It would have been electrified, and most people would have seen a decent reduction in travel times. There was supposed to be a mini yard built at Waldwick allowing for increasing service on the Main/Bergen Lines.

The Pascack Valley Line would have been re-double tracked up to New Bridge Landing, which was to become a regional transit hub intersecting with a proposed Route 4 busway. The Double tracking would have allowed for reverse peak service, which is badly needed for the warehouse and Hospital workers. That plan was finally shelved in 2005 much to the disappointment of Hackensack and River Edge which plan to up zone along the corridor. NJT further got into a fight with river edge over the New Bridge Landing station expansion , the agency wanted a huge parking garage and the town did not...so the whole plan was canned in 2009. They also screwed over Hasbrouck Heights when they fenced off the western side of the tracks at Teterboro station rather than work with the town to install a proper crossing...ridership plummeted in the months after.

The Only hope of Electrification now is the MTA wants to electrify its remaining diesel lines by 2040ish.

He should push for funding the states backlog of Rail projects , some are in the break ground state like the West Trenton Line , MOM Network , PA Rail links. Others could have an accelerated study/engineering process to reach the shovel ready state like the Newark-Paterson LRT , Newark-EWR-Elizabeth-Cranford LRT , Northern Branch LRT , Paterson-Hackensack-North Bergen LRT , West Shore Line , Cape May Branch..

We had a wishlist drawn up in the 90s that if it were built by now would have addressed many of the congested corridors. It also would have connected most of Urban Jersey together with rapid transit rail and suburban areas would have had electrified frequent regional rail service.. Clearly the state has money for all these highway expansion projects, we're talking at least 40 billion over the next 15 years, but when it comes to Transit very little seems to be pushed.

In the video they showed proof she paided tho...

Yea the same goes for all those neglected former warehouse buildings which would make great residential buildings or mixed use like they did in Industry city in Brooklyn.

NJT cops let you railfan from the platforms without issues.

Thank you, I also took this shot of the Port at 120mm from the Bayonne Bridge, which is tricky due to the wind up there.

I did it from the other side at night with a 85mm lens.

I await the tsunami of negative comments that usually come with a posting about Newark..

I think Trenton and Camden also had low numbers. Trenton only had a handful of shootings over the summer and no murders. NY is also trending down...but Philly is sadly over the 600th mark.

Sometimes they swap the routes out, one time I went to look at the 165 schedule I had bookmarked, and it was for the 168.

Be careful they sometimes change out the links.

I'm out I'm 30$ so far this year from their machines freezing on me...

Yea they need to put the bus schedules in a similar format as departure vision. Reading a PDF on mobile format is not fun. They also need to place electronic schedules signs at their busier bus stops like the MTA does.

They won't its like a warehouse district. On the surface it looks good, but peel back a few layers and the true impact smacks you in the face. I doubt many of the higher paying employees will live in Newark, and most of the jobs will be low pay. Add in increased congestion of the surrounding streets.

Portuguese and Brazil are more or less a Newark,NJ thing...so maybe thats the reason it never caught on in nyc.

Only 1 Acela a day stops at Trenton , but Regional stops there...

You know, NJT has express trains during rush hour that more or less do the same thing...