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Old 08-11-2012, 06:28 PM
 
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Decided to try the "official" path for complaining about the NJ transit not-so-quiet car. I complained that they let people take babies (which of course are not quiet) into the quiet car, and this is the response:

"While your frustrations are understandable, NJ TRANSIT can not restrict customers from riding in the quiet car because of their age."

So it's official, the quiet car is the nursery car. Looks like I'm going to be doing a stint in the Essex County Jail for telling one of these people off.
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Old 08-11-2012, 07:37 PM
 
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Decided to try the "official" path for complaining about the NJ transit not-so-quiet car. I complained that they let people take babies (which of course are not quiet) into the quiet car, and this is the response:

"While your frustrations are understandable, NJ TRANSIT can not restrict customers from riding in the quiet car because of their age."

So it's official, the quiet car is the nursery car. Looks like I'm going to be doing a stint in the Essex County Jail for telling one of these people off.
I disagree with their response. How can they allow other forms of age discrimination and not another?
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Old 08-12-2012, 06:09 AM
 
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Decided to try the "official" path for complaining about the NJ transit not-so-quiet car. I complained that they let people take babies (which of course are not quiet) into the quiet car, and this is the response:

"While your frustrations are understandable, NJ TRANSIT can not restrict customers from riding in the quiet car because of their age."

So it's official, the quiet car is the nursery car. Looks like I'm going to be doing a stint in the Essex County Jail for telling one of these people off.
If being polite doesn't work, try making a phone call with loads of vulgarity within ear shot of the kids.
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Old 08-12-2012, 10:01 AM
 
Location: East Rutherford, NJ
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Ah, that makes sense. A bus seems like a good way to get into Manhattan. Especially if you live within reasonable distance. I was thinking people were using it within NJ.
Ohhh yeah yeah, in that case no effin' way. Local bus service might be manageable and useful in the cities in NJ, but other than that no way.

I'll never forget our resident bus-psycho on these boards trying to tell me how the crappy 1 hour bus ride that shows up every 2 hours is what I should take to work instead of my 15 minute drive.
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Old 08-12-2012, 11:52 AM
 
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Just one example of the stupidity of some of these drivers. I got out of the PATH train at 6:25 on a weeknight to get the last bus out of JC for Central NJ at the Grove St. station. Cold night, 5 or 6 people line up behind me and then 6:30 rolls around and nothing. One after another local buses comes by and not our bus. A gentlemen who was waiting nearby informs us that the bus we were looking for left about 6:25, stranding all of us waiting for the last bus.

How much common sense does it take to think "I have to at least wait till the posted time of 6:30 as this is the last bus"? Luckily a person waiting knew a higher up at NJ Transit, called him and he sent a bus over from NYC. But it took an hour in the freezing cold.
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Old 08-12-2012, 03:05 PM
 
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If being polite doesn't work, try making a phone call with loads of vulgarity within ear shot of the kids.
Then _I_ get tossed out for being using the cell phone in the quiet car. The rules only apply to certain people.
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Old 08-12-2012, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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The double deckers are the only saving grace for NJ transit. Everything else about it -- sucks.
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