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They're right. NJT isn't perfect for its own reasons but they're still right.
To add to what others said, another big problem relating to crowding is that developers in this state want to keep building condos and apartments in areas that are already at capacity, adding more commuters who are attracted to moving here from NYC and coming more inland from other more urban areas in NJ.
In Cranford we just found out that a developer wants to rezone a commercial lot into residential and build 900 units. This is after all the recent building that has taken place. This will likely add over 1000 more people if it goes through, on top of everyone who has moved here with the recent building in the last few years. Our population increased by only about 50 people from 2000 to 2010 according to the Census. With this new development, even without the 900 proposed units, we're probably looking at an increase of over 1000 from 2010 to 2020. It's insane.
They're doing the same thing all over. I'm in Elizabeth and all of these "luxury" apartments are popping up everywhere. All because we're along the Northeast Corridor, and can get to Manhattan faster than some people who live in Brooklyn. Union county in general is going to be getting very crowded.
In reading this thread, and speaking as a lifelong railroad buff and transportation studies graduate, I can only speculate on what's going to happen when the bill can no longer be evaded.
The "good news" is that there is an alternative to the North River Tunnels in the form of PATH. But the downside is that the longer the politicians keep putting "patches on patches", the greater the likelihood that more than one of the major arteries into the city will be affected at the same time. And unlike, for example, 9/11/01, this is not a disruption that can be addressed by "running repairs" within a relatively short time.
It's a situation that calls for foresight like never before. But if the live-for the-present mentality that gave rise to the continuing political circus that is California continues to spread, I don't see how another major meltdown can be avoided. And it's folly to ignore the fact that the two major infrastructural disruptions (9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina) primarily affected regions and sectors of our economy identified with only one side of our continuing polarization.
We need to develop a system of readiness which transcends the pettiness of local political-pandering and identifies the greater threats beneath. The transformation of an economically-weak rail network which had been festering since World War II into a healthy one, and one in which massive nationalization (save for the politicaized sideshow known as Amtrak) was avoided, is proof that it can be done.
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The fun part is all these developments around Newark, JC the citizens will all get choked by the Hudson tunnel repairs. The PATH is already at the max with its ridership. Think of Newark like Brooklyn or Queens in 10 years and there is only one freaking train line that service this many people. While NJ Transit will likely require bus service to help with the major disruption when repairs begin.
If they don't start building new tunnels soon, they don't have time left to provide enough bandwidth in/out of NYC for NJtransit and Amtrak.
I'l be retired by then.
The skeptic in me wonders if NJ officials are wishing for an eventual tunnel closure so they say "come do business in NJ!"
Worked for Superman/Clark Kent. All he did was put on a pair of glasses and change out of the leotards.
Yes, but to be fair, Superman had the benefit (?) of public phone booths for his costume change and the placement of his Clark Kent glasses. Nowadays, in the absence of public phone booths, nobody could possibly effect that... total... alteration in appearance.
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