By Brenda Flanagan, NJTV News; July 18, 2019
After wishing New Jersey Transit a happy 40th anniversary, advocates demanded more realistic information in the face of this summer’s ongoing train cancellations. The agency has scrubbed 100 trains a week on average since mid-May, according to an NJ.com report.
“I understand your situation. You don’t have engineers to run trains. That’s understandable and people do understand that,” said Steve Thorpe, an advisory board member with NJ Transit’s Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program. “Give us a schedule you can reasonably operate and you can keep, not a schedule that’s imaginary because you have to cancel so many trains.”