NJ Transit buses run late more than previously thought...

[Silk City Transit]

http://www.northjersey.com/news/nj-state-news/nj-transit-data-on-bus-service-confirm-worst-suspicions-1.1070833

 

Discuss...

[553 Bridgeton]

One of the biggest problems is the full service routes. They need to do away with it. There working on a system for it but not fast enough.

 

Ive said it before a metrocard type card where you load money and swipe. If you need a transfer simply tell the driver and he/she presses a button and a 2hr xfer id issued on the card.

[mfs NJT459]

Wayfarer does have smart card scanners, as Coach USA Rockland used them

 

[46Dover]

Lakeland has these

[DaTransitMan4608]

One of the biggest problems is the full service routes. They need to do away with it. There working on a system for it but not fast enough.

 

Ive said it before a metrocard type card where you load money and swipe. If you need a transfer simply tell the driver and he/she presses a button and a 2hr xfer id issued on the card.

I wish NJT would implement that. I'm sick of having to scramble for cash when I ride the 139 from anywhere that isn't a Park/Ride with working ticket machines.

[BZGuy]

Rockland doesn't have those....I think just Lakeland and DeCamp.

 

And at the end of the day the way these new people are getting trained is horrible. They don't know how to keep a schedule at all, slow with making change and working the Wayfarer. Changes are needed in the training department ASAP!

[qjtransitmaster]

Here is an instant fix for most people expand mytix to buses.

[553 Bridgeton]

Rockland doesn't have those....I think just Lakeland and DeCamp.

 

And at the end of the day the way these new people are getting trained is horrible. They don't know how to keep a schedule at all, slow with making change and working the Wayfarer. Changes are needed in the training department ASAP!

Transit is only worried about training how to count their money. Thats what the majority of training is about.

[46Dover]

Transit is only worried about training how to count their money. Thats what the majority of training is about.

I tell you, from doing the Wayfarer, adding cash and loading luggage, its like being a NASCAR pit crew member lol

[B35 via Church]

That's rather generous to consider an arriving bus that's 6 mins. late, as being on time.... With that said, still only 68% (of 60%) of buses are arriving on time (in other words, 32% (of that same 60%) of buses are arriving >> 6 mins late)??

 

I wonder which (routes) constitute the other 40% of bus service that wasn't analyzed.... and how negatively would it affect that 68%....

 

For the mathematically challenged (lol), In plain english:

If 100% of NJT's trips were to be analyzed, just how bad would timeliness be, system-wide?

 

 

Transit is only worried about training how to count their money. Thats what the majority of training is about.

LMAO !

[qjtransitmaster]

That's rather generous to consider an arriving bus that's 6 mins. late, as being on time.... With that said, still only 68% (of 60%) of buses are arriving on time (in other words, 32% (of that same 60%) of buses are arriving >> 6 mins late)??

 

I wonder which (routes) constitute the other 40% of bus service that wasn't analyzed.... and how negatively would it affect that 68%....

 

For the mathematically challenged (lol), In plain english:

If 100% of NJT's trips were to be analyzed, just how bad would timeliness be, system-wide?

 

 

LMAO !

That's a scary thought I had no idea it was that bad maybe it's due to the fact so many routes run on congested highways and the nature of many routes in NJ combined with the heavy traffic and lack of HOVs in the state that and the infamous NYC bound routes everywhere. It doesn't help that outside Newark and parts of union bus service is poor and let us not even get started on poor south Jersey which is a real hot mess in almost every regard the traffic ain't helping nor the ignorance about NJT bus service in general.

[QM1to6Ave]

I could never understand why NJT didn't upgrade to a Metrocard years ago...I mean, I've been to second and third world countries that have more advanced bus ticket systems! All of my coworkers who live in Jersey avoid NJT like the plague, to the point that they prefer those sketchy Jitney routes to NJT. 

[DaTransitMan4608]

I can't really say NJ Transit has been late for me. Don't get me wrong it's been late for me before, longest I've had to wait for a bus is 30 minutes before it showed up.

 

The routes with the best on-time performance IMO is the 131, 133, and 135. Even with the XBL backed up some mornings, I still managed to get in at 8:45 when I took the 135 this summer, which is the scheduled arrival at Port Authority.