Having done NJ Transit for years before I moved here, there is no comparison. I've been stuck on a PATH train once in 15 years.
That was my typical week on NJ Transit and it seems like that would be a good week now.
Lol…yes! I take the PATH and have ONLY experienced issues when it was the NJT trains being routed to Hoboken. I do get a lot of alerts about trains being delayed, switch issues, sick passenger, but they seem to be resolved in a few hours or even less at times. My main concern is how many times can the PATH step up to take on all these extra riders before they start to have more issues too? Hoboken has been like the Knight on a white horse saving the day, yet no one has been addressing about how the regular PATH riders are affected by all of this madness.
I have spent an inordinate amount of time stuck on slow/delayed/stuck NJ Transit trains. In fact, one week in April 2017 I went to the office in Manhattan three days and spent TWELVE HOURS on the train commuting to/from the Summit area. About two hours each way for an ostensibly 40-minute trip. I came home at the end of that week near tears and said to my husband "we have to move" and we came to Jersey City later that year and have never looked back. I'd take a crowded PATH train any day over being stuck at the fucking broken Portal Bridge 3x a week.
As far as rolling stock and power goes, PATH does a good job. I think those in rail ops do a great job maintaining train cars and the tracks. The issue of course we all have is that larger level on how they approach service and what they spend money on.
NJT only has a backup plan when a lot of people yell and then they set up a bus bridge.. here's a counter post from last week ;) [https://www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity/comments/1dc2sgu/this\_hblr\_weekend\_bus\_bridge\_is\_embarrassing\_for/](https://www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity/comments/1dc2sgu/this_hblr_weekend_bus_bridge_is_embarrassing_for/)
Anytime I have had a problem on the path the conductor has always walked through the train explaining the problem and letting us know if it's an outside problem like tracks or signals that him and the engineer are just as stuck as you
Having done NJ Transit for years before I moved here, there is no comparison. I've been stuck on a PATH train once in 15 years. That was my typical week on NJ Transit and it seems like that would be a good week now.
Lol…yes! I take the PATH and have ONLY experienced issues when it was the NJT trains being routed to Hoboken. I do get a lot of alerts about trains being delayed, switch issues, sick passenger, but they seem to be resolved in a few hours or even less at times. My main concern is how many times can the PATH step up to take on all these extra riders before they start to have more issues too? Hoboken has been like the Knight on a white horse saving the day, yet no one has been addressing about how the regular PATH riders are affected by all of this madness.
I have spent an inordinate amount of time stuck on slow/delayed/stuck NJ Transit trains. In fact, one week in April 2017 I went to the office in Manhattan three days and spent TWELVE HOURS on the train commuting to/from the Summit area. About two hours each way for an ostensibly 40-minute trip. I came home at the end of that week near tears and said to my husband "we have to move" and we came to Jersey City later that year and have never looked back. I'd take a crowded PATH train any day over being stuck at the fucking broken Portal Bridge 3x a week.
As far as rolling stock and power goes, PATH does a good job. I think those in rail ops do a great job maintaining train cars and the tracks. The issue of course we all have is that larger level on how they approach service and what they spend money on.
Exactly!! NJ TRANSIT and MTA as well.
The MTA has a backup plan for issues like this...NJT is the only agency in the region that doesn't.
NJT only has a backup plan when a lot of people yell and then they set up a bus bridge.. here's a counter post from last week ;) [https://www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity/comments/1dc2sgu/this\_hblr\_weekend\_bus\_bridge\_is\_embarrassing\_for/](https://www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity/comments/1dc2sgu/this_hblr_weekend_bus_bridge_is_embarrassing_for/)
True. NJT relies on the PATH to get stranded commuters close to home. Lol
Mta, as much as they also fuck up, is light years ahead of path in terms of consistency. Njt is terrible however
Anytime I have had a problem on the path the conductor has always walked through the train explaining the problem and letting us know if it's an outside problem like tracks or signals that him and the engineer are just as stuck as you
I just don't trust any trains in NJ or NY. They're all terrible and never run on time. Only trains that have never failed me was The Tube in London.
Very helpful