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Ridgewood NJ, NJ TRANSIT is launching a new feature on its mobile app that will make it easier than ever for rail customers to use their location to navigate the system with their mobile devices. Customers will now have the ability, once their phone’s location services are enabled, to use the “My Active Trip” feature, which will provide a push notification to alert customers on board a train when they are approaching their selected destination.
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Clifton NJ, a NJ Transit crew on a train Port Jervis bound train , discovered a dead body along the Main Line tracks between Clifton and Paterson on Tuesday night.
The incident is currently under investigation by NJ Transit and there was no confirm on whether the person was hit by a train.
Trains running on the Main-Bergen Line were subject to 30-minute delays because of the investigation and that at least one train scheduled to depart Hoboken at 8:46 p.m. was canceled. By 10 p.m., that evening NJ Transit also reported that a Hoboken-bound train was running an hour behind schedule.
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Ridgewood NJ, Senator Michael Testa said his office has received an internal Murphy administration memorandum detailing plans to release COVID-positive inmates at bus and train stations tomorrow with no warning to the general public.
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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Transit Police Department has expanded its Community Outreach Unit from two to five officers, allowing for more ways to help those in need and to help maintain a safe and healthy environment for all.
“The New Jersey Transit Police Department is one of the best trained and most professional police departments in the country, and a community-based policing approach brings help to the people who need it the most,” said NJ TRANSIT President & CEO Kevin Corbett. “NJ TRANSIT is not only committed to providing safe and essential transit services throughout the state for those who depend on us, we are equally committed to being good community partners.”
Continue reading NEW JERSEY TRANSIT POLICE EXPAND COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND INTERVENTION PROGRAM
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Ridgewood NJ, As part of an ongoing commitment to promote sustainable economic growth, NJ TRANSIT has announced that developers are now being sought to design and build Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects on NJ TRANSIT properties located in Jersey City and Woodbridge.
Continue reading NJ Transit Pushes Major Mixed-Use Projects on Transit Property
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Ridgewood NJ, the word on the street is that the homeless man that was alleged to have pulled a knife on a couple in Ridgewood is now camping out in a new location at the Ridgewood Train station .
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Ridgewood NJ, As part of the effort to continue its fare modernization initiative, NJ TRANSIT, in conjunction with its vendor Conduent Transportation, has begun the installation process to bring onboard ticket validators to its entire statewide bus fleet. The devices allow customers using paper and mobile barcode tickets/passes to minimize personal contact with bus operators by scanning the barcode instead of handing the operator the ticket.
Continue reading NJ TRANSIT BEGINS FLEET-WIDE INSTALLATION OF ONBOARD TICKET VALIDATORS ON BUSES
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Ridgewood NJ, with all the new high density housing in the central business district amd many new people expected to move into town ,don’t be surprised if this come up again .
from Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Ridgewood, N.J. blowing whistle on trains
RIDGEWOOD NJ, Almost 15 years to the day after a village teenager was killed by an oncoming locomotive, the Village Council is set to vote on an ordinance that would outlaw the sounding of train whistles except for an emergency, reports the Bergen Record. Continue reading Train Whistles and the Ridgewood Central Business District
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Hackensack NJ, around 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, an unidentified man, was fatally struck by a NJ Transit train near Passaic Street in Hackensack. The train had departed from Hoboken around 2:13 p.m. and was Spring Valley bound.
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Ridgewood NJ, according to Boyd Loving in a Facebook post, ” It’s official. Barring approval of an estimated $4 million improvement project to widen Glenwood Road, that street will become one-way eastbound (vehicular traffic from Ridgewood to Ho-Ho-Kus only) within the next 6-12 months. The one-way change/designation for vehicles is being mandated by the NJDOT in conjunction with their plans to upgrade the NJ Transit grade level rail crossing at the bottom of the hill. Village and Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus elected officials fought NJDOT on the issue, but NJDOT is refusing to budge citing numerous safety hazards associated with the continuation of two-way vehicular traffic at the grade level rail crossing.”
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Ridgewood NJ, NJ TRANSIT has received a prestigious internationally recognized certification for its continued efforts to protect the integrity and privacy of corporate and customer information. NJ TRANSIT is proud to be the first public transit agency in the nation to achieve ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. NJ TRANSIT’s achievement of the certification highlights its commitment to protecting customer data and its proactive approach towards information security threats.
Continue reading NJ TRANSIT RECOGNIZED FOR CYBER SECURITY SAFEGUARDS OF CUSTOMER DATA
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Ridgewood NJ, As an additional measure to protect customers and employees from the spread of COVID-19, NJ TRANSIT is introducing vending machines on a pilot basis to purchase Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face masks, hand sanitizer, sanitized wipes and disposable gloves at Newark Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal. The machines will also be installed at other select stations over the coming weeks.
Continue reading NJ TRANSIT INSTALLS PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT VENDING MACHINES
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Ridgewood NJ, since 1927 Village moms and dads have complained about inadequate parking in Ridgewood’s central business district . In the late 1960’s parking meters were added to the CBD to pay for a future parking garage , the chance was misplaced . Plans were drawn up over and over and finally after much debate in early September of 2019 the Village Council pushed forward with the Hudson Garage . Progress came quickly ,but in March of 2019 COVID19 struck , wiping out the demand for commuter spaces . then restaurants were shut down leaving the Village with a great white parking garage elephant . While things have started to return to some semblance of normal with outdoor dinning ,now partial indoor dinning . Al Gore’s internet continues to steal retail sales ,restaurants are struggling to survive and commuters may never return . At lest the massive high density housing projects will now have access to more parking .
Continue reading The Best-laid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Awry…the Hudson Parking Garage
Continue reading Glen Rock Paving NJ Transit Main Line Commuter Parking Lot
