Bus vs train commuters to NY

Interesting article regarding NJ Transit and the Sandy aftermath.

We particularly found this paragraph interesting given how much more attention and money train service gets to New York than does bus service:

NJ Transit facilities suffered damage from the storm. Several rail lines are still not back to 100 percent. Durso said NJ Transit typically has 45,000 customers traveling into and out of New York Penn Station, and 66,000 bus customers traveling into and out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal each day. Another 34,000 commute to the Port Authority on private carriers, Durso said.

As we all know, we  badly need bus related improvements too such as bus parking and loading facilities, including downtown but trains seem to get far more resources than do buses despite the fact that there are far more bus commuters than train commuters.

Commuter Parking Advisory Committee

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Sandy soaked transit agency in more ways than one

Monday January 28, 2013, 8:42 AM

BY KAREN ROUSE

STAFF WRITER

The Record

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The walloping that NJ Transit took from superstorm Sandy wasn't limited to trains and tracks. The state's mass transit agency also suffered at the fare box, losing more than $18 million in revenue.
The loss was compounded by NJ Transit's having to pay more than $9 million to various private companies that picked up the slack in the weeks after the storm to move people around the region.

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