Dan Stessel
Dan Stessel
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The goal is to encourage students to try NJ Transit as their primary mode of transportation and hopefully stick with it when they enter the workforce.
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It's difficult to attribute that to a single factor; the high cost of gas would have something to do with it. More importantly is the additional service.
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It's an incredible and complex project that is nothing short of an engineering marvel.
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It'll be a daily service and much more frequent.
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There's no common thread to the delays. We understand the customers' reaction to the delays. We are working diligently to correct the problems.
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Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.
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They could go higher, and that number could change. Obviously, this has the potential to become a problem.
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There has not been anything systemic that we can point to or work to rectify in any meaningful way, which has been part of the challenge. I almost wish I could point to something.
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There have been some intermittent improvements over the years, but the station has, over time, experienced deterioration to its concrete passenger platform. We have conducted annual inspections that revealed water infiltration and the effect of salt corrosion.
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We build for the future. We wouldn't want it to be at its capacity at the end of the first or second or even fifth year.
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What could be a single relatively minor problem for one train can wind up affecting the entire morning service for all the trains behind it, because there's no way to work around it.
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We recently had a fare increase, and so even with the cost of gas being what it is lately, I do not foresee a raise in our rates.
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Travel right now is treacherous in many areas of the state, and it looks like it will remain that way for some time.
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The purpose is to reduce the chance that somebody would be tempted to take an illegal or ill-advised shortcut across the railroad tracks.