“This is so f–king annoying! I have a flight from Newark in two hours,” a man in Penn Station fumed before running off with two suitcases. Nearly 80 New Jersey transit trains were canceled in what officials called an “illegal job action” - sending commuters scrambling for a way to get their destinations from Penn Station as Father’s Day weekend kicked off. The transit agency said in a tweet they expect engineers to report to work Saturday, allowing for a regular weekend schedule. New Jersey Transit suspended rail service into and out of New York City on Friday night after members of the locomotive engineers’ union called out sick en masse to protest a lack of holiday pay on Juneteenth. NJ Transit to receive $1.5B in federal funds, Trump says NJ Transit asks judge to ban serial sex offender after 15th arrest Meanwhile, $191 million in federal funds from the Infrastructure and Jobs Act will pay for agencywide repairs and resiliency and design projects this includes modernization of rail yard and storage facilities and bus garages, among other projects.Driver hospitalized after NJ Transit train smashes into car in HackensackĬharter bus company defrauded NJ Transit out of $15M, AG says
Another $40 million of state dollars will fund right-of-way upgrades in Clifton. Another nearly $200 million is funding work at Newark Penn Station.Īmong the other stations and terminals that will get a share of the state funding are Hoboken Terminal, $176 million New Brunswick Station, $49 million Bloomfield Station, $48 million Brick Church Station in East Orange, $33 million and Roselle Park Station, $27 million.
Credit: (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Budget documents show that NJ Transit has set aside almost $200 million for upgrades at Newark Penn Station, pictured here.Īccording to budget documents, $250 million from the state debt-relief funding has been set aside to pay for upgrades at the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden.
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