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[CNJRoss]

NJTransit.com

 

Important Notice:

 

All NJ TRANSIT rail service, with the exception of the Atlantic City Rail Line, is suspended due to weather related issues. All NJ TRANSIT light rail and buses are subject to suspensions, detours and delays due to widespread weather related issues.  System-wide cross-honoring is in effect with NJ TRANSIT and private carrier bus and light rail.

 

 

[KevinKorell]

 

 

UPDATE: NJ TRANSIT Light Rail Severe Weather Updates – Effective Immediately

Due to widespread weather issues, NJ TRANSIT is subject to ongoing suspensions, detours and delays. Systemwide cross-honoring is effect until further notice.

UPDATES: 

• Newark Light Rail is currently suspended.
• Suspensions are in effect on the River LINE in Camden.
• Hudson-Bergen Light Rail is suspended between Liberty State Park and West Side Avenue.
• NOTE: Light rail is subject to further updates including suspensions and delays. Customers are urged to monitor njtransit.com and Social Media before traveling for service impacts on Thursday, September 2.

[KevinKorell]

Important Notice:
All NJT rail service, except the ACRL, remains suspended. HBLR modified wknd service. Nwk Light Rail service has resumed on the Broad St. Ext. between NPS and Nwk Broad St and on the Mainline between Grove St. and Warren St. Stations. Buses and River LINE are operating, expect delays, cancellations & detours due to major flooding from storm impacts. System-wide cross-honoring is in effect with NJT and private carrier bus and light rail.

[KevinKorell]

Important Notice:

Rail service in/out of PSNY delayed up to 45 min due to Amtrak signal issues. PVL rail service has resumed with limited service. HBLR is providing substitute busing between Bergenline Ave. & Tonnelle Ave. The RVL remains suspended. Customers on all modes should expect delays, detours and possible cancellations due to residual storm impacts. Systemwide cross honoring in effect for rail, NJ TRANSIT & private carrier bus and light rail.

 

[KevinKorell]

Patch, 9/2/21:

 

 

    Stuck NJ Transit Train Stops Flood Gates From Closing  

 

 

A stranded New Jersey Transit train on flooded tracks is preventing flood gates to be closed in Bound Brook. 

 

Story

[CNJRoss]

Patch, 9/2/21:

 

 

 

    Stuck NJ Transit Train Stops Flood Gates From Closing  

 

 

 

A stranded New Jersey Transit train on flooded tracks is preventing flood gates to be closed in Bound Brook. 

 

Story

 

Somebody has some serious explaining to do!

 

Bound Brook ". . .  partially lies on a natural flood plain of the Raritan River at the junction of the Green Brook and Raritan River."  The area has endured many devastating floods including several that were deadly.

 

A long-delayed flood control project, first proposed in the early 1970s, was finally completed in 2016 is intended to prevent another disaster.   Having a stranded NJT train prevent closing a flood gate is unbelievable.  This should not have happened!

 

Wikipedia:  Green Brook Flood Control Project

 

My Central Jersey (Courier News):  Bound Brook celebrates flood control project

[KevinKorell]

While the flooding was worse than might have been predicted or expected, what comes to mind is: What happened to the lessons learned from Superstorm Sandy 9 years ago?  NJT made a point post-Sandy of ensuring it had space on high and dry land to park its equipment to keep it from being flooded.  It seems that the decision makers who sent this train through over the Raritan Valley Line rather than parking it and ceasing service made a terrible error here for a number of reasons.

 

And it wasn't the only apparent NJ TRANSIT dispatching mistake. Read on....

 

 

 

   New Yorkers trapped inside flooded trains for 10 hours in dark during Storm Ida    

 

 

 

Commuters in New York were trapped on a train for 10 hours without toilets or electricity after the tracks were flooded by Hurricane Ida.  

 

Metro Magazine's headline for this story is incorrect, in that this incident happened in Newark, NJ, between downtown and the Newark Airport Rail Station.  While there were some New Yorkers amongst them, no doubt at that time of the evening it was taking people who live in New Jersey home from the city.

[KevinKorell]

WKXW Radio, 9/21/21:

 

 

     Lawmakers: Probe Bound Brook flood caused by disabled NJT train     

 

State lawmakers who represent Bound Brook are seeking an independent investigation into flooding in the borough caused the remnants of Hurricane Ida, made possible by a disabled NJ Transit train that blocked the town’s floodgates.

 

Update

[KevinKorell]

Patch, 9/20/21:
 

 

     Murphy says NJ Transit intends to figure out what caused disaster in Bound Brook     

After three Republican legislators called this morning for an independent investigation into flooding in Bound Brook during Hurricane Ida, Gov. Phil Murphy said that while he has not yet seen the request for an investigation, he supports looking into the matter further.

 

 

More

[CNJRoss]

NJ.com, 9/20/21

 

Independent investigation needed into NJ Transit flood gate incident during Ida, legislators say

 

 

Three Republican legislators want an independent investigation into how a stranded NJ Transit train prevented flood gates in Bound Brook from fully closing during the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

 

State Senators Michael Doherty, Assemblyman John DiMaio, and Assemblyman Erik Peterson, all R-Somerset, Warren, Hunterdon, plan to introduce a bill calling for an independent investigation of the Sept. 1 incident in which a Raritan Valley Line train got stuck at 9:30 p.m. in rising flood waters and debris on the tracks at the flood gate.

 

 

Because the train could not be moved, Somerset County crews could not fully close the flood gates, when they arrived later.

 

In an interview with NJ Advance Media, Bound Brook Mayor Robert Fazen blamed the partially closed gate for flooding in the western end of the borough. The gate is part of a $300 million flood control project constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the wake of 1999′s Hurricane Floyd which inundated Bound Brook.

 

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