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Nj transit train cancellations2/13/2023 These 14 new engineering class graduates will have to complete additional field training and then start their “final ride checks” later in the month. Murphy said that was a level the agency hadn’t met in a decade.Īll told, the administration added 127 new locomotive engineers since 2018, according to Murphy’s office, fueling a 15% decrease in rail cancellations between 20. The lack of engineers to run the trains – for anything as simple as a staffer calling in sick, taking a vacation day, or retiring – has become the source of delays, cancellations and overcrowded trains, sometimes dozens in a single day.īut in April, the agency reached the threshold of the 390 engineers it needed to keep operations running smoothly, with 393 in total. “I have to be honest … I underestimated the state of affairs at the agency when I arrived,” Kevin Corbett, NJ Transit’s chief executive officer, told lawmakers during a summer 2018 hearing at the statehouse in Trenton over the agency’s string of delays. The summer of 2018 laid bare the dire circumstances of the state agency, when commuters suffered more than two straight weeks of back to back delays, staffing shortages, equipment issues and cancellations. Phil Murphy delivers remarks at the Completion of Classroom Training Ceremony for New New Jersey Transit Engineers on June 11, 2021.
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