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Ridgewood NJ, The NJ TRANSIT Board of Directors today authorized a $4.1 million contract with FXCollaborative Architects of New York for preliminary design, engineering and construction assistance of the Central Concourse Extension at Penn Station New York (PSNY), which will provide additional customer access to tracks.
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Ridgewood NJ, NJ TRANSIT is beginning the installation of new and improved ticket vending machines (TVM) at several locations systemwide. Fourteen new TVMs will be phased in over the next week, replacing older machines at bus, light rail and rail stations. This is the second phase of an expanded pilot program which rendered great success in Edison, as part of NJ TRANSIT’s ongoing contract with Conduent to modernize fare payment systems and enhance the customer experience.
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East Rutherford NJ, beginning next week, COVID-19 testing will be available daily in East Rutherford to all NJ TRANSIT employees. NJ TRANSIT employees will be accepted for appointment-only testing at the site which opened on April 13 and is currently geared toward first responders and frontline healthcare workers. Online registration access for NJ TRANSIT employees will be available beginning on Sunday, May 3. NJ TRANSIT is also working to expand access to similar testing sites in central and south Jersey.
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Ridgewood NJ, Beginning Monday, April 20, NJ TRANSIT will add extra trips to certain bus routes, creating a modified service level to support essential travel and adding capacity to further help social distancing on board buses to comply with Governor Murphy’s Executive Order 125. Travel should be limited to essential purposes only. Customers may view bus schedules on njtransit.com.
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New bridge Landing NJ, a driver died Tuesday afternoon after his SUV was struck by an NJ Transit train in Bergen County. The Pascack Valley Line train, which was traveling to Hoboken, hit the SUV at 4:40 p.m. just east of the New Bridge Landing Station near the borough’s border with Hackensack. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene . This particular spot had several train car collisions in recent months .
It was unclear exactly where the car was when it was hit by the train, which had only 10 people on board, including crew and passengers Pascack Valley Line service was temporarily suspended at New Bridge Landing station while NJ Transit Police were at the scene investigating and substitute bus service was being provided between Anderson Street and River Edge Station.
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Ridgewood NJ , a homeless guy has moved in along taxi station and train tracks at the Ridgewood train Station . In recent years the Ridgewood train station has become a haven for homeless urinating and defecating all over the place.
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Ridgewoood NJ, Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 125, imposing additional mitigation requirements on NJ TRANSIT and all private carriers to limit the spread of COVID-19. The order also outlines specific policies on restaurants that have remained open for takeout orders.
“We must continue our commitment to do everything we can to flatten the curve and defeat this virus,” said Governor Murphy. “With these additional requirements, we are aggressively reducing the spread of the virus to protect New Jersey residents.”
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Ridgewood NJ, NJ TRANSIT is urging all riders to wear a face covering. It’s an additional, voluntary public health measure that CDC says can #SlowTheSpread. ESSENTIAL TRAVEL ONLY, please. Learn to make your own cloth mask at: https://youtu.be/tPx1yqvJgf4. Thanks for
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Ridgewood NJ, Beginning Monday, March 30th, NJ TRANSIT will adjust its weekday bus service to a special schedule to accommodate essential travel due to the decline in ridership related to COVID-19. Complete weekday bus schedules are available on njtransit.com by clicking HERE.
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Ridgewood NJ, NJ Transit is seeking $1.25 billion of federal aid to make up for a plunge in fare revenue in the wake of the new coronavirus, according to a letter the agency sent to the state’s congressional delegation.
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Ridgewood NJ, Beginning Friday, March 20th, NJ TRANSIT’s rail lines, with the exception of the Atlantic City Rail Line (ACRL), will operate on a weekend schedule with slight modifications. Customers are strongly encouraged to sign up for My Transit alerts and activate push notifications on the mobile app to receive the latest status of the system.RAIL:
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Photo: A commuter left a thank you note with customer service commending officers Raps and Maseda. The officers retrieved the commuter’s ear pods that had fallen onto the tracks.
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Ridgewood NJ,NJ Transit Police remind you that if you drop an item on the tracks, NEVER go after it! Let us know and we’ll be glad to help. Your valued items (no matter how big or how small) are important to you. Your safety is important to us! Don’t hesitate to call us. We’re ready to help no matter how big or how small your need may be.
photo courtesy of Oradell PBA
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Westwood NJ, according to NJ Transit officials a man was struck and injured Tuesday afternoon by an NJ Transit train in Westwood.
Continue reading Pedestrian Struck by Pascack Valley Line Train in Westwood
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Ridgewood NJ, The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has given NJ TRANSIT approval to begin Revenue Service Demonstration (RSD) of its Positive Train Control (PTC) system, moving NJ TRANSIT one-step closer to meeting the federally mandated deadline of PTC certification by December 31, 2020.
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“If the logic for closing the road or making it one-way is to reduce the risk of accidents from over-sized vehicles, then how about actually first making clear to drivers that this is a road for passenger vehicles only? I encourage you all to look at the signage at the top and bottom of Glenwood. You’ll see they’re all about as clear as a NYC parking sign. Moronic wording that nobody would read or decipher when turning onto the road. Who actually came up with these signs? Clowns?
Proper and clear signage – no words, pictures only – will dramatically cut down on any confused drivers from out of town. This should be the first step in addressing whatever concerns actually drive this issue.
The only other factor possibly behind the drive to make this a one-way road is the very clear anxiety among some of our collective neighbors about how to navigate their Yukon XLs down the twisty road with oncoming traffic. Wouldn’t it be easier for those drivers to simply take another route than to force this change on the rest of us?”
