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#11 KevinKorell

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Posted 09 February 2014 - 02:06 PM

From Daily News, New York, NY, 2/6/14:

100 NJ Transit buses were prepared for Super Bowl, then kept away: Source


Lotta good these buses did.

While tens of thousands of Super Bowl attendees waited for hours to cram into trains after the game Sunday, at least 100 New Jersey Transit buses were on standby about 6 miles away but were never deployed.

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Posted 11 February 2014 - 12:00 AM

Bergen Record, Hackensack, NJ, 2/10/14:

Empty spaces and packed trains as thousands paid for Super Bowl parking they didn’t use


More than $400,000 worth of prime parking for Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium — some 2,000 parking passes and 300 charter bus permits — was purchased, but never used, according to interviews conducted by The Record.

Instead, thousands flocked to NJ Transit’s rail service, which quickly became overwhelmed, leaving thousands of fans waiting hours to board trains both to and from the game.


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Posted 13 February 2014 - 01:13 AM

Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, 2/6/14:

Poll: Should Super Bowl train mess cause NJ Transit director to lose his job?


Should the head of NJ Transit lose his job in the wake of the post-Super Bowl train mess?


Here's the poll

There are 4 choices in the poll, but the vote of "Yes" is just over 50% as of now. This article reiterates the fact that Weinstein is blaming the game attendees for purchasing their tickets on the day of the game. They did so because they had that option. And your agency couldn't foresee that possibility and plan accordingly? Perhaps if this was to be such a mass transit oriented game, then the transit tickets (whether bus, train, or other means) should have been sold as a package along with the game tickets. Then there could have been a clearer picture of how many might be planning to show up by train. When you're talking over $1,000 for a seat at the game, what's another 10 bucks for a train trip?


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Posted 22 February 2014 - 03:01 PM

Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, 2/21/14:

Hearing to discuss Super Bowl transit woes postponed due to lack of cooperation


An Assembly Transportation Committee hearing planned Monday to discuss the mass transit gridlock at the Super Bowl and other complaints about NJ Transit was scrapped because the transportation agency and NFL and stadium officials refused to cooperate, the committee chair said today.


Story is here. It's clear that NJT even under fire continues to stick to their "We transported 33,000 people safely" song. And although Mr. Weinstein's resignation is effective March 2nd, in every sense he's already either gone or is just marking his time until departure, rather than taking the agency's failure like a man and claiming at least some accountability for the mess NJT made of the Super Bowl transportation.


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Posted 11 March 2014 - 01:08 PM

The chairman of the committee that held the hearings says initial findings suggest the transit problems were caused by "an overreliance on expensive bus options that fans were unlikely to use" as well as the lack of a backup plan. View the full article


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