NJ Transit to Penn restored and already 12 min late (?)

Just wanted to vent ...Was it crazy of me to presume (after a summer of sloggin' through Hoboken) that - once restored - the trains would come predictably on time (at least for the first few weeks/months) before something broke down again? Just sayin' ( end of mini-rant).

- Alex 

and the train in the other directly is I think 28 min late...

Why would you expect it to be any better than it was previously (on the non-breakdown days)?

They did major repairs to the trackwork in Penn.  That doesn't affect anything else.

It's pretty much back to normal - which for my train coming in means usually 10 minutes late - and only on time once or twice a year.

So it's better than it was with the speed restrictions, where I was usually 20 minutes late. But not service as it's supposed to be, which has essentially never happened.

qrysdonnell said:

It's pretty much back to normal - which for my train coming in means usually 10 minutes late - and only on time once or twice a year.

So it's better than it was with the speed restrictions, where I was usually 20 minutes late. But not service as it's supposed to be, which has essentially never happened.

They said all along that all we could expect was to get back to where we were before things started going downhill in the last few months.  To do better, we need new tunnel(s) and other actual IMPROVEMENTS to the infrastructure, not just "repairs".

Perhaps we need a more accurate train schedule that reflects reality.  Then more of the trains would be on time.

I could've sworn that in the first few years since moving to Maplewood in 2013 I almost never had train delays, but had noticed things getting progressively worse especially this past year. So I really (apparently naïvely) thought that these repairs were the solution. Oh well.  

The repairs were basically just a stop-gap to try and reduce the chance of a derailment because of old track ties in the approach to Penn Station. Apart from when there was a derailment that wasn't a serious contributing factor to the lateness. They just had to do it because there was an ever increasing risk of injury. That work pretty much just brought us back to the baseline "we don't think you're going to die today" level of service.

Still alive, so it must be working!

alexj said:

I could've sworn that in the first few years since moving to Maplewood in 2013 I almost never had train delays, but had noticed things getting progressively worse especially this past year. So I really (apparently naïvely) thought that these repairs were the solution. Oh well.