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New Flyer was the only bidder, NJ Transit’s procurement calendar showed. MCI was the only bidder on a request for bids for the purchase of 172 cruiser buses in 2021. Lack of competition inflates ...
NJ Transit’s board on Wednesday approved the purchase of 228 buses, 20 of them electric, for $393.4 million, beginning a massive plan to replace more than 1,200 aging buses in five years.
New Jersey Transit trains screeched to a halt Friday as locomotive engineers struck — leaving commuters scrambling to figure out alternate means of transportation from the Garden State to the Big ...
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NJ Transit is hoping to offer other ways to travel. The state’s buses — whose unionized drivers just reached a contract agreement with NJ Transit this month — will ...
It didn’t take long for NJ Transit to forgive Academy Bus, LLC. The Hoboken bus company has landed four NJ Transit bus contracts in the last year — despite its ongoing payments toward a $20.5 ...
Displaced NJ Transit rail commuters would have some wide-ranging options if a strike happens Friday, including driving to work, taking a bus, or riding a ferry. NJ Transit has set up a site that lists ...
Meanwhile, NJ Transit officials have put bus service into hyperdrive, trying to accommodate the 172,000 weekday rail riders; Amtrak, PATH, ferries and private bus companies are also stepping up ...
NJ Transit said it will be adding additional buses on Monday, but has said that only about 20% of its 100,000 daily rail customers can be accommodated on bus routes. The agency is asking its daily ...
Supplemental chartered buses will begin running on Monday, but officials warned they can accommodate only about 20 percent of train riders. By Patrick McGeehan NJ Transit’s statewide bus system ...
NJ Transit may be encouraging some customers to work from home in May, a surprising stance from a transit agency that relies on continued ridership. That's due to a much-feared rail strike that ...
The private bus industry in New Jersey and nationally has cratered in recent years, and that has limited competition for NJ Transit contracts. It didn’t take long for NJ Transit to forgive ...