Imagine this scene with winter clothing, three times as many people, and all of the statuses saying "delayed". Fun, yeah?
I thought the N in NJ Transit was part of New Jersey, but it’s really starting to look like it short for NotGettingAnywhereFastOrEvenRemotelyOnTime JaJaJa Transit.
If a train is scheduled to arrive at 8:56 and it constantly arrives at 9:05-9:10,
then change the arrival time to 9:05.
If you’re constantly lacking equipment for a certain train and cancel it all the time,
rework your train schedules.
If delays are really more like 45 minutes to an hour,
for the love of god, don’t claim they’re 10 minute delays!
Last night I was subject to yet another NJ Transit horror story. It took me two hours to get home instead of one, because there was a train derailment near Penn Station in NYC. NJ Transit claimed 10-15 minute delays throughout this ordeal, and they were full of crap – I spent over an hour in the station and instead of 6 trains going in my direction, there were two. I missed the first one because there were about 3 times as many people trying to get on it – it was on Track 1, and I had been waiting by Track 12, and there was a human traffic jam the entire way. It was horrible.
I eventually got on another train 30 minutes later, and got to stand for an hour while it made local stops.
Last week, I was an hour late to work (it took 2 hours from me getting to the train station to sitting at my desk) because of their so-called 10 to 15 minute delays. I was also frozen because it was about 15 degrees that day, there was no room to wait outside, and not one train stopped besides the one I got on.
This is why people hate NJ Transit. It’s expensive, the service is spotty, and they can’t even be honest about their delays. Don’t call an hour delay 20 minutes, it’s just makes me more mad. Being honest at least gives me time to plan, lets me know I have time to go grab something to eat safely, and all that jazz. I just know that this is not service worth paying $361 a month for!
