Thirdrail7
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I know this is impossible to image but it turns out the NY times thinks a NJ Transit train is the very worst commuter train for reliability.
I know you're shocked and appalled!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/nyregion/njtransit-commuter-delays.html
We Found the Very Worst Commuter Train in America
Train 2606 has failed to show up for its morning run nearly 20 times this year, leaving riders in New Jersey fuming.
Here are a few brief, fair use quotes:
Wow! That's a high number of cancellations. Maybe they are attempting to operate too many trains to begin with.
I know you're shocked and appalled!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/nyregion/njtransit-commuter-delays.html
We Found the Very Worst Commuter Train in America
Train 2606 has failed to show up for its morning run nearly 20 times this year, leaving riders in New Jersey fuming.
Here are a few brief, fair use quotes:
Their train, North Jersey Coast Line 2606, which is supposed to depart at 7:06 a.m., had been canceled. Again.
This time — the 18th cancellation of the year — the official explanation was “equipment availability resulting from a mechanical issue.” But these aggrieved riders in Middletown did not seem to care. They had heard all the excuses the railroad had to offer. All that really mattered was that they were not getting to work on time. Again.
This is the plight of the hundreds of people who depend on what just may be the worst commuter train in America. The railroad they ride, New Jersey Transit, has been plagued for the last two years by a rash of cancellations.
Gov. Philip D. Murphy has promised to fix the railroad since before he was elected in 2017. But in the first six months of 2019, New Jersey Transit canceled more than 1,300 trains — more than 50 a week — according to a New York Times analysis of the agency’s reports on social media.
The disruption has been spread across the railroad’s 12 lines, but it has not been spread evenly. The Times’s analysis found that six different trains were canceled at least 15 times from January through June.
Other major commuter railroads did not approach such a level of futility. Neither Metro-North Railroad, which serves the suburbs north of New York, or the Long Island Rail Road canceled a train more than eight times during the first six months of the year, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Metra, another large commuter railroad that serves Chicago, had only one train canceled as many as five times in the same period, said Michael Gillis, a spokesman for Metra. And most cancellations there are caused by winter weather, he said.
Wow! That's a high number of cancellations. Maybe they are attempting to operate too many trains to begin with.