I'm going to taking a page from the 'LUXURY HOUSING!' guy and banging my BRT drum in every applicable thread.

Make Ocean from the Bayonne line up to Summit, JSQ PATH and all the way to 495 (and then to 42nd St PA) a Bus Rapid Transit route. No cars, just buses with loading platforms and stops every 1/2 mile like a subway or Light Rail. Signal priority so they zoom through the lights. It would be just like having a Subway line the length of the city and it would transform JC!

All the whining about needing parking for cars will be undercut by a massive improvement in the local transit and connections to the city and PATH at a relatively cheap cost compared to any other option. Yes there's current bus lines, but they are slow and often undependable especially during the heavy traffic hours they're needed most. This would be more like a Light rail with no tracks to lay. And make them electric or hydrogen powered.

Here's the route: https://imgur.com/qlDOTO1

That’s pretty reasonable, but that wouldn’t be disruptive enough for drivers, so mass transit advocates will be against it, and it’s too efficient so drivers will be against it.

Nobody in politics like things that are clear wins. Gotta make sure the other side feels their loss.

Just a reality of modern day politics.

Something has to be done about the pollution from buses. Whenever a bus drives by there is so much stench of fuel. I don’t know how NJ is so behind on this despite having one of the most robust bus networks

Lack of money is the simple answer. Trenton doesn't give NJ Transit a sufficient operating budget, let alone a capital budget.

Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks strategy. Lovely!

Not really. All of these are things are projects NJ Transit has been working on already. None of these things are really out there.

Good - bus improvements are a huge step towards making a good mass transit system.

Find me one transit or even bike advocate who would oppose this.

especially when they refuse to build any new rail regionally, and are hamstrung from building toward/into nyc for (reasonable) fear of 10 million middle men from one million agencies sticking their hands in the states pockets.

Agree. This would be a great project!

In case anyone is excited about this bus study, they did one in Newark a while ago. It’s been over a year since they released the plan and there have been no updates whatsoever. At least the consultants got their paychecks

Gloucester bus study is going along at a steady pace.

I don't think its case of refusing, I think its more a case of a lack of money stacked against a ton of other capital projects.

There's over 4 billion for the turnpike widening. Could build some kind of rail with that

That's Turnpike's money, not NJ Transit's money. It could be NJ Transit money but the way Trenton funds NJ Transit is inadequate. No seperate, dedicated operating budgets and the capital budget is a hand to mouth affair with funds pulled from all over the state budget.

I hate how stigmatized buses are in the US, at least around here it’s not so bad

Yes, most US cities have such poor Transit that Transit is only for the poor, and gains that stigma.

Are they gonna come up with all the recommendations just to never do them like newark?

From the hearsay I've heard apparently the changes NJ Transit riders wanted didn't necessarily go like peanut butter and jelly with the constraints NJ Transit placed on the project. So NJ Transit was asked to rework some things on their end, but as far I'm aware NJ Transit wants to see it through. Part of the reason for a possible Microtransit service around EWR and Port Newark is to more efficiently route bus, which was in line with the plan's recommendations.