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The order is part of a six-year contract, with the company set to begin production of year four coaches starting in September of 2019.
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Would build them far from where the storm-surge waters from Superstorm Sandy swamped the agency’s upper Hoboken and Meadowlands Maintenance Center yards. Nearly one-quarter of the agency’s fleet was damaged by flooding. Storm recovery aid allocation could be a deciding factor.
Read More →The agency’s “VAXRIDE” program includes up to two free round trip rides to approximately 11,000 residents.
Read More →If there is no agreement and a strike or lockout occurs, Congress could impose its own settlement under Federal Railway Labor law, with such a settlement proposed as a bill.
Read More →After news of the surveillance surfaced in April, Interim Executive Director Dennis Martin defended its use and said the agency was using whatever tools at its disposal to "deter criminal activity" and keep passengers safe, citing global terror attacks.
Read More →The funds will be used to replace and raise the signal and communications systems on the Morris & Essex lines and along a portion of the North Jersey Coast line, as well as repair damage to electric power and distribution systems used by Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, with other long-term recovery projects also are funded.
Read More →The program, which started this summer and is still in the assessment stage, applies to seating at stations in Atlantic City, Hoboken, Newark and Secaucus.
Read More →New high-level platforms provide accessibility to customers with disabilities. Agency also rebuilt elevator shafts, a pedestrian tunnel, tunnel stairs and exterior stairs to South Bridge Street, and installed closed-circuit television cameras, new ticket vending machines and electronic customer information signs.
Read More →Jacobs Engineering Group will complete design and engineering work to transform a local rail yard into a permanent location to store railcars during a storm. The move comes after superstorm Sandy damaged nearly 400 of the agency’s railcars and locomotives when they were left in flood-prone rail yards last year.
Read More →Officials said they will monitor overcrowding on the Main, Bergen, Port Jervis, and Pascack Valley lines and will deploy "additional capacity, when available, in selected areas" to relieve overcrowding.
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