Montclair-Boonton Weekend Service ?!

Not to start ugly rumors, but this months issue (March 2008) of TRAINS Magazine implied that NJT is to have weekend service on the Montclair-Boonton Line by the end of 2008. The article focused heavily on the Pascack Valley improvements and some RVL improvements. Below is an excerpt of the section pertaining to the Montclair-Boonton service:

MORE TRAINS FOR NEW JERSEY - Next Up: Montclair
"NJ Transit also had good news for its passengers on the Montclair-Boonton Line: Two new park and ride stations are opening in January 2008 and weekend service should be running by the end of the year... According to NJ Transit, weekend train service awaits rehabilitation of of the ex-Lackawanna Broad Street station in Newark" (TRAINS Magazine, March 2008, page 23).

Sorry for not retyping the whole section. Most of the other information relayed histroy of the Montclair-Boonton line as well as what the scope of the Newark Broad St. rehabilitation, info we are all farmiliar with.

Any truth in what is being relayed in this article?

There WAS truth to the article, but in the time that the issue went to print and was delievered, things changed.................

and not for the better

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... c&start=90

Copied from Mark Schweber's post on 1/31/08 at 4:27pm in that thread linked above

Start date delayed for weekend trains
Thursday, January 31, 2008
BY PHILIP READ
Star-Ledger Staff
NJ Transit's plans to begin weekend train service to Manhattan by year's end along the Montclair-Boonton line will be delayed well into 2009, the agency said yesterday.

Amtrak has informed the agency that its tunnel upgrade under the Hudson River has been extended into next year, with "no end date," said NJ Transit spokeswoman Penny Bassett-Hackett.

She also said the state Department of Transportation will be replacing the bridge spanning the commuter tracks at Bloomfield Avenue on the Montclair-Glen Ridge border.

"There will be no power to power the overhead wires or power the signal system," she said of the impact. "So while that work is being done on the weekends, we will not be able to run any trains."

"Sometime next year, we'll see how those projects are progressing," she said.

Don Zief, who chairs the town's public transportation committee, said the weekend bridge work on Bloomfield Avenue is expected to start in September and take nine to 12 months.

"The best case for weekend service would be fall 2009," he said.
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Right after MOM opens for business. These politicians really don't care about the people they serve.