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NJT free week last summer |
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Posted by B1bus on Sun Mar 1 07:08:52 2026 DId anyone take advantage of free week last summer?I did. Rode nearly all of the stops on the lines including the river line to Camden. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Mar 1 13:58:15 2026, in response to NJT free week last summer, posted by B1bus on Sun Mar 1 07:08:52 2026. They do that again and they might get assaults. I remember free rides on New Year's Eve during the 1980s and assaults happened, so they stopped that altogether. |
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Posted by gbs on Sun Mar 1 22:17:14 2026, in response to NJT free week last summer, posted by B1bus on Sun Mar 1 07:08:52 2026. I did. Started at Penn Station (NYC) to Secaucus Junction, explored that station (still don't understand why the upper level has turnstiles but the lower level doesn't), then switched to a Main Line diesel to Delawana and walked to Rutt's. Then back to Hoboken and switched to the light rail to Tonnelle Ave, the last stop in North Bergen. Also rode the elevator up at the next-to-last stop to Bergenline Ave. It's great when you can just get on and off as often as you like. I hope they do it again. The only disappointment was discovering that Hoboken is a low-level platform station, because I wanted to take my bike, but I don't think I could comfortably exit the train down the narrow steps with the bike. |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Mon Mar 2 11:55:39 2026, in response to NJT free week last summer, posted by B1bus on Sun Mar 1 07:08:52 2026. I just went up to Metutchen and Edison for some photos. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Mar 2 13:01:16 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Mar 1 13:58:15 2026. The obvious applies here. NJT & NYCTA are two different agencies with different rider numbers and clientele for lack of better adjective. One New Years Eve when the MTA had the free rides, kids would buy a case(s) of beer and ride back and forth all night on the trains. The biggest problem was the condition of the equipment as in the filth, piss, vomit and empties found when the car cleaners came to work the next day and not so much crime. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Thu Mar 5 07:20:24 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by gbs on Sun Mar 1 22:17:14 2026. Hoboken is one of the greatest railway stations/terminals in the world. High level platforms would sadly ruin it. It would kill the proportions. |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Mar 6 03:13:15 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by terRAPIN station on Thu Mar 5 07:20:24 2026. But sooner or later high level platforms will become state of the art and probably ultimately required by ADA. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Mar 6 03:26:12 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by randyo on Fri Mar 6 03:13:15 2026. Absurd. You going to convert all of Metra and LA Metrolink to high platforms?The ADA will have to be overturned eventually. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Fri Mar 6 08:31:21 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by randyo on Fri Mar 6 03:13:15 2026. They were state of the art 50 years ago. They are already basically “required” for new construction and major renovations. But no, they will likely never become required to replace all existing low level platforms unless the costs somehow became much less via some new technology or material. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Mar 6 13:41:12 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by terRAPIN station on Fri Mar 6 08:31:21 2026. High platforms are an anachronism from the 1800s; what do you mean? The PRR's original platforms at Princeton Junction were high, and then they rebuilt them to low later; NJT (present station owner) made them high again. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Mar 6 17:11:04 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Mar 6 03:26:12 2026. "The ADA will have to be overturned eventually."That will never happen. You'll see the return of the smoking car first. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Mar 7 01:24:09 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Mar 6 17:11:04 2026. Anything can happen if you get rid of enough RINOs.But one thing the ADA will at least not do is get all passenger platforms converted from low to high. Amtrak sure is not going to get rid of its Superliner fleet any time soon, and there are still replacement Superliners on order UIM. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Mar 7 09:01:49 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Mar 7 01:24:09 2026. ADA regs apply to a lot more than railroads. Thats why the ADA is here to stay. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Mar 7 14:32:04 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Mar 7 09:01:49 2026. That is not a reason why it would be "here to stay". |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Mar 7 15:00:50 2026, in response to Re: NJT free week last summer, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Mar 7 01:24:09 2026. Amtrak has publicly said no new bi-levels. As to RINOs, send them to the same re-education camps as D |
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