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The NJDOT has released the 2011 rail map. It supersedes the 2007 edition, as amended. The main changes are that local municipalities are no longer shown and that the names of all passenger stations are listed.
The new edition is a huge disappointment. First, the names of all the passenger stations provides for major clutter. While some changes have been made (such as dropping Great Notch station and removal of the CNJ main line east of Aldene), the 2011 edition still has almost all the errors the previous one had, including long gone lines such as the LV Clinton and Flemington spurs, NYSW Pompton Branch, Edgewater Tunnel and the Erie Orange Branch. The Hudson Bergen Light Rail is not complete north of Hoboken, 8 Street Station (opened January 31, 2011) is shown but not yet connected to HBLR. And oddly, CNJ still runs into downtown Newark. Finderne is still shown, almost five years after end of service. (I will eventually compile a list of all known errors in the NJDOT State and County maps and will contact NJDOT to submit revisions).
If the 2007 edition was being revised regularly (with new and closed stations, etc.), why was there a new to have a completely new edition? This comes especially when NJDOT and other agencies are on tight budgets, and also with the Christie administration's policy on cutting excess.
The new edition is a huge disappointment. First, the names of all the passenger stations provides for major clutter. While some changes have been made (such as dropping Great Notch station and removal of the CNJ main line east of Aldene), the 2011 edition still has almost all the errors the previous one had, including long gone lines such as the LV Clinton and Flemington spurs, NYSW Pompton Branch, Edgewater Tunnel and the Erie Orange Branch. The Hudson Bergen Light Rail is not complete north of Hoboken, 8 Street Station (opened January 31, 2011) is shown but not yet connected to HBLR. And oddly, CNJ still runs into downtown Newark. Finderne is still shown, almost five years after end of service. (I will eventually compile a list of all known errors in the NJDOT State and County maps and will contact NJDOT to submit revisions).
If the 2007 edition was being revised regularly (with new and closed stations, etc.), why was there a new to have a completely new edition? This comes especially when NJDOT and other agencies are on tight budgets, and also with the Christie administration's policy on cutting excess.
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