We have thousands of units presently under construction and thousands more that are ready to come online just in the Jersey City area,' said Mukherji, who held a town hall on bus service with NJ Transit this summer. Finally, the agency is listening and making positive changes, he said, but he warned that those routes will need to be a priority going forward. The 10 and 119 have boomed in popularity, which was the main reason NJ Transit decided to take them over from Coach this summer.Īssemblyman Raj Mukherji, whose district is in Hudson County, has spent years talking to NJ Transit officials about the plight of bus riders in his district. 'It's always late and it's always packed.' 'I wish I could say today's experience was unusual,' Skinner said. Without that cushion, she would have missed a work meeting. and a bus didn't come for nearly an hour, even though two were scheduled during that time. On Monday, she got to her stop at 7:35 a.m. She always gives herself an extra cushion in the morning in case of a late- or non-arriving bus. Transit: Local bus companies say they face 'borderline harassment' in NYC over migrant crackdownĭynelle Skinner has lived in Jersey City on the 119 route since 2019. He also said buses used to stop in front of a local grocery store, but now they don't, and customers have to walk extra blocks to catch the bus with groceries in hand, an issue NJ Transit has brought to the city's attention. For example, sometimes the buses say “out of service” but are actually running. “The service is running better than Coach, definitely, but there’s room for improvement,” he said. Hakim Hasan, a Jersey City bus rider who regularly takes the 10 and first informed The Record and about the lackluster service last year, said performance has improved, but he still has concerns. “Ridership along this corridor in September 2022 has reached new highs and regularly surpasses 11,000 on weekdays,' Norman said.

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