Nuplex t1_j8ttkas wrote on February 16, 2023 at 10:13 PM

Reply to comment by Aggravating_Rise_179 in This Urban Planner Wants to Build a Massive Circular Rail Track Connecting Jersey City, Newark, Paterson by p4177y

That's because PATH refuses to run operationally effecient.

There are so many operational improvements PATH could make to have reduced pre-pandemic crowding that they just didn't. (I will give credit that they did actually commit to longer trains and improving signaling)

And of course new lines or stations should be being proposed by PATH to adjust to the growing urban environment instead we have to constantly beg them to stop the brain-dead weekend 33rd St Via Hoboken nonsense, something they are able to do right now and just don't want to.

Also, I don't think Redundancy is bad rather from a state planning perspective that is the primary reason they would not extend HBLR to Newark. Especially when, as said, PATH can do many things to improve capacity any time. I guess when we all give up on PATH to be competent we'll have to build these other systems to supplement their poor management.

Aggravating_Rise_179 t1_j8v4u7g wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:03 AM

I mean sure, but the Path literally bypasses one of NJ's most densely populated neighborhoods in the Ironbound, and any light rail connection with HBLR would help alleviate traffic in a part of town that is super congested. The path is great, but it doesnt provide any services to a part of Newark that really needs it

Nuplex t1_j8xar70 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:46 PM

I'm not against it I'm just saying what the state would say when they explain why they won't fund it.

More transit is always something I personally want haha