August 6
...serving up your daily dish.
If you have any midday plans to trek into the city on Monday, taking the train will be tricky. All off-peak Midtown Direct trains on the Montclair-Boonton line are canceled next week, to provide additional trains for the PGA Championship golf tournament. From the Montclair Times...
“We are technically canceling those Midtown Direct trains that run from approximately 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,” Ken Hitcher of NJ Transit said. “We are adding substitute train service to Hoboken.”
Commuters seeking to go to Midtown Manhattan can transfer from the Hoboken-bound trains at the Newark Broad Street Station. A schedule printout supplied to a Montclair resident by NJ Transit indicated that one less train will be operating during the non-peak hours, with Newark-bound trains stopping at Watchung Station, a midpoint in Montclair, at 10:14 a.m., 11:34 a.m., 1:32 p.m. and 2:12 p.m., before the afternoon peak-hours trains begin.
Trains departing Newark during non-peak hours will stop at Watchung Station at 11:32 a.m., 12:22 p.m., 1:22 p.m. and 2:07 p.m. before the afternoon peak-hour trains begin.
“The Montclair service has the lowest ridership in the midday service of the four lines,” said Hitcher, who said the number of riders influenced NJ Transit’s decision to reassign trains to serve the upcoming golf tournament.
As NJTransit struggles to be creative for the US Open, the riders appear to be the suffering bunch caused by the required transfer at Newark. NJTRail has given out bogus BS info on the Montclair-Boonton Line. NJT is wrong to tell its riders - Not Everyone is going to NYC - that they need to debark at Newark is just "PLAIN" wrong. "Stay on their substitue train to Hoboken and then ride PATH to Manhattan. You have two, that's right, 2 Options. NJTRail has a problem with "Positive Redundancy" a concept that is a mystic myotic viewpoint in the halls and offices of NJTransit.
We all know, by looking at the mapquest for the area that NJTRail could have gotten really, really close to Baltusrol if it used the Rahway Valley line. Instead they need shuttle buses to cover the last two miles, this needs the tag: Ironic!
Posted by: Juris Curious | Aug 7, 2005 8:43:43 AM
