New Jersey Transit is examining how to improve service, said New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti.
She and NJ Transit Executive Director Kevin Corbett didn’t say when or how the country’s second-busiest commuter rail system will provide relief to about 150,000 daily riders, most of whom work in New York City.
The agency, she said, is considering whether to deploy more buses and Hudson River ferries to supplement service, as it did a year ago during eight weeks of stepped-up maintenance that closed tracks at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan by Amtrak, which shares its station with other railroads.
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