Bill introduced for NJT to provide all service free during summer months

A free weekends only Shore Express train from NYPenn to Long Branch would be tremendous.

Tremendously violent.

NJT certainly overcharges for the mediocre, at best, service they offer, but making the entire thing free all the time is a bad idea. Reduced prices all around? Yes. No fares on slow days to try and attract new riders? Sure. But having free service on weekends during the summer will 100% bring on people who will cause problems, and probably chase people away from using NJT. A lot of New Yorkers are avoiding the subway due to all the violence on it, and it's not even free!

Sounds like a sure way to get the homeless out of Manhattan. Free rides to the beach...

No fares on slow days to try and attract new riders? Sure. ...

No, not even that.

"But having free service on weekends during the summer will 100% bring on people who will cause problems, and probably chase people away from using NJT. "
This comment makes no sense to me at all. It's probably all moot anyway as it's June 11 and the legislature is closed until sept.

Dcell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 2:12 pm "But having free service on weekends during the summer will 100% bring on people who will cause problems, and probably chase people away from using NJT. "
This comment makes no sense to me at all. It's probably all moot anyway as it's June 11 and the legislature is closed until sept.

If it's free, you can get on and stay almost as long as you want. It will become a mobile homeless shelter at the very least. On one hand, they would have a warm and cool place to sleep, but I'd imagine it could cause some serious health and safety issues if that becomes another function of NJT...