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15-minute headways on the PVL, seriously?

There is no salt water in air. NaCl separates from water when it evaporates. This is a shameful and disgraceful move on NJT's part. Cleaning the cars could have easily saved them in working condition. I disagree. Cleaning them after decades of pretty severe damage, especially electrical damage, wou...

Mazza Recycling is right across Memorial Drive from the Neptune yard. With the effects of salt water, and then sitting for so long afterward, I don't think they'd be worth much besides scrap. Bay Head was not the best place to store equipment during Sandy, it was completely under water. I'm surpris...

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

Nobody said “missing section near I-78”. Specifically, the former CNJ was severed by I-78, whereas the former LV was bridged over the interstate. Also, the former CNJ between Easton and Bethlehem is completely moribund and will not be rebuilt; a former underpass under the railroad was replaced in th...

Tremendously violent.

Imagine Nixon deregulating instead of creating the NRPC in the first place. Might have had a viable high-speed intercity passenger rail network long before now.

What nonsense? What is non-bloated about $35 billion, which is more than enough to build thirty Penn Stations?

Very bad idea. Would have the same problems as the former free New Year's Eve trains, with passengers getting assaulted and robbed.

What “intention” was that? The intention under government-run rail service? During the peak of the Reading’s Crusader and Wall Street services, the intention was very much to compete with the PRR, for passengers. Certainly even today, this is not in any way meant to be a “detour” for passenger rail ...

WFH won’t go away. My Fortune 100 company has already disposed of 25% of its leasehold in a named skyscraper, and 80% of those workers are allowed WFH. 10% are permanently remote. When the rest of the leasehold comes up for negotiation, I’d be shocked to see 50% of what we had pre-Covid. I’ve been ...

In a land long ago and far away, the NYCRR did a study on hanging wire from Croton Harmon (where the 3rd rail ends) to Buffalo. They came to the conclusion it was cost prohibitive back then when labor was cheap. Now you have Metro-North who most certainly isn’t going to pay for catenary and NYS doe...

Perhaps too much is being made of WFH? I remember it being touted two decades ago as heading towards becoming the norm as well. Given that much of the hype surrounding COVID is being exposed for what it is, it may be that perhaps even NYC’s present mayor does not want his city to really slide into ...

Perhaps too much is being made of WFH? I remember it being touted two decades ago as heading towards becoming the norm as well. Given that much of the hype surrounding COVID is being exposed for what it is, it may be that perhaps even NYC’s present mayor does not want his city to really slide into b...

Hasn't stopped NJT from buying more MLV cab cars and trailer cars from Alstom . Calls priorities into question at the very least. Why would it stop them? They are able to buy these cars at prices that are unthinkable in today's high inflation climate. So inflation both is and is not a factor. Inter...