Major train delays between N.J. and NYC highlight crumbling infrastructure
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Commuters in New Jersey and NYC are speaking out about New Jersey Transit's crumbling infrastructure after countless incidents have caused delayed trains or diverting to another location. This comes just before a striking 15% fare hike starting in July.
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#Infrastructure #Train #NewJersey
Infrastructure in this country is an embarrassment.
Time for another billionaire tax break so they can trickle down to the regular folks more money so they can afford cars instead of relying on the train.
Love the high speed rail here in Spain 🇪🇸🇪🇺👍 And the roads with no pot holes👍
@@user-nc2qj2jc5q we also love the 27 percent youth unemployment in Spain. One doesn't need public transportation if one doesn't have a job to go to 🇪🇸🇪🇺👍🏻
its crazy to think we used to be the leaders of the world and now we are just a joke
@@SM-Flyers bruh these people most likely have the money to buy one, but the density of those cities makes it very inefficient to drive around by car. Taking the trains helps alleviate car dependency. What needs to happen is to repair our crumbling infrastructure.
I wonder what happens when you ignore vital rail infrastructure for half a century.
Nothing happens
😊think its was the electronic line under in tunnel 🙄
Money is stolen….
Nobody cares about you. 2-3 hours just to commute 😂
it begins with reagan.
America is crumbling everywhere because of stupid politics!
Blame republicans
Politics is just the outcome. Vested interests are the reasons why!
Pretty much. The opposition, be it Democrat or Republican, tends to favor doing nothing because they need an issue to use for elections.
@@ORO323 nah the democrats support infrastructure and public safety nets republicans do not
AND the evil oligarch class which has PURCHASED those stupid politicians. See "Citizens United" -- i.e. unlimited bribery of "stupid politicians" made legal BY THE FRIGGING REPUBLICANS.
I dont think the construction workers from 100 years ago knew they would be the last hands to touch this thing.
I shouldn’t have laughed at this comment
i don’t think they thought about it
@@xenonmob You don't think they thought about repairs on an entire subway system....they just thought it would last forever?
Infrastructure should be a priority and not tax cuts for the wealthy.
Not many tax cuts going on in NYC
The tunnel project was halted because that particular design accidentally went PAST THE STATION and would have to circle back.
another person who dont know what he talking about. if i am a billionaire with 1 million jobs , if you dont give me a tax cut i can afford to take my jobs elsewhere
@@TheOrangePatriot True! they can just leave. If the billionaire actually uses the money for something other than his pockets, cronies and personal interests, all works out. Rarely is that the case as we've seen. I don't have the answer, but tax breaks are prob not part of it.
@@scrat8177 put your self in their shoes . you own amazon. millions of jobs . America does not want to give you tax breaks but china will give you 60 years of tax break written on paper. you would stay in America? not me . ill take my jobs to china because am a business man not a charity good guy
Imagine if we took the money spent in iraq and afghanistan the last 20 years and it was used on US infrastructure during that time.
Exactly, right!!! That was $2 TRILLION of tax payer money that didn't help us in any effing way
How the military industrial complex gonna make money ??
They you would be off somewhere fighting instead of complaining..
Add ISRAEL and UKRAINE to the list
Say it again!!!
When Chris Christy was NJ governor he halted a major public transit infrastructure project, including a new train tunnel under the Hudson. We have him to thank for this situation. Christy’s leadership was a sick joke that has kept us puking it up to this day.
Right, because no democrat could possibly solve a problem.
The project was halted because that particular design accidentally went PAST THE STATION and would have to circle back.
where does all the tax money go?
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Democrats spend it trying to figure out what a woman is.
He canceled it after $600 million had already been spent and an initial tunnel needed to be filled in
Tokyo metro area has even more trains yet they run efficiently and on time. 89.5% on time rate in Japan would be considered a massive failure, yet NJT brags about it?
They need a brightline train
It’s Amtrak. They’re the problem. They own the NE Corridor tracks.
@@word42069 which essentially means it’s the Federal government that would rather put money in other areas than take care of infrastructure projects that should have been completed decades ago. When you have inept leadership that doesn’t look ahead, this is what happens.
American politics 101: Party in power tries to solve issue. Opposition says no. Opposition is elected into office and then tries to solve the same issue. Former party in power says no. It's a non-ending loop of incompetence.
You should be a civics teacher
THIS is why people don't want to go into the office anymore.
They need a brightline train
People are not "commodities".
Yes they are
Yes they are
This is economics, not the humanities or ethics. People are commodities just like goods and services. You learn that in high school.
@@Bryar_Smith commodities are products or substances that can be traded, bought or sold. Human beings haven’t been bought or sold since Abraham Lincoln was President,
I'm from the area:
We were supposed to have a multi-million tunnel project called the ARC Tunnel installed back in the late 2000's to address the issue of there only being one extremely old tunnel handling all traffic in and out of Manhattan. Neither Christie or Cuomo wanted to pay more than the other one even though there probably would've been some form of federal funding to help. They played a back and forth game and ultimately if it had been started immediately 10-12 years ago, we wouldn't have this ongoing issue. It was cancelled in 2010. This isn't even including the fact that for years after Hurricane Sandy there were 20 minute delays both from letting trains through the only operable track lines due to there being one tunnel plus construction to fix this tunnel from Sandy. Then the Gateway Program in 2011 was meant to be a tunnel going to the Hudson Yards but as of yet it is completely non-existent; since 2022 both governor's finally agreed to share some of the cost, but federal funding has lagged from the last few presidential administrations including the one we're currently in. The good news: The Gateway project has FINALLY gotten funding from the current bipartisan infrastructure bill and it's finally going to be started sometime this year. It's been a LONG time coming.
Didn't we just pass a trillion dollar infrastructure bill??!?
The bill was passed but it's going to be another ~10 years until this tunnel project is actually done. It would have already been completed if Gov. Christie didn't abruptly cancel the original "Access to the Region's Core" ARC project back in 2010, which called for new tunnels between NJ and NYC. Then this new Gateway Program was started up by Amtrak in 2011 which also urgently called for new tunnels in addition to other upgrades (like Portal Bridge), but Christie and then Pres. Trump stalled things for a while until stuff finally started getting done in ~2020.
Yes, we *just* did.
10% for the big guy.
Yes, but there is no money to use. lol
The tunnel project was halted because that particular design accidentally went PAST THE STATION and would have to circle back.
Our lights are dim
Our roads are crumbling
And we don't know what to do.
Blue Oyster Cult
Such a shame that we as a country have such embarrassing train systems. Europe and Japan puts us to shame when it comes to their high-speed rail services and consistency
Crumbling infastrcture is not only embarrassing on a national level, it's mind boggling that a first world developed country can not properly maintain it's trains, roadways, bridges, etc.... Europe, Tawain, The United Arab Emirates, Japan, etc... are years ahead of the US.
They were building a new tunnel but I think New Jersey needs brightline trains
America is not a First World Country..... anymore.
I remember once being in New York City in The heat of July and walking all the way to Penn station only to find out that my trains had all been canceled and I was not getting home that day.
1. Ignore important priorities
2. Refusing to deal with crime and bullying
3. Gentrify the whole city. To where people won't accept jobs in the area.
4. Blame the migrants instead. Or the dissatisfied people for "complaining too much."
Rinse and repeat....
Well written facts.
The Immigrant population is substantially higher than True American population.....
just shut it all down
Everyone likes new projects. Everyone forgets the biggest cost is maintenance over its lifespan....
Both parties have spent too much over the years, but NOT on what I'd say are priorities, like maintaining and building new infrastructure projects to keep up with population growth. Also, no one seems to want to pay for such projects. For one example, how long has it been since the gas tax was raised?
It was actually raised earlier this year by the legislature and Gov Murphy.
Did you forget democrats infrastructure bill😂😂😂😂 and everything is falling apart. Because it was all a scam and we were warned only a small percentage went to infrastructure the democrats spent the rest in democrat run states on democrats pet projects.
@@stevenmitchell1 He was mentioning Federal Gas Tax. This one was last raised in 1993.
Maryland has one of the highest Gas taxes in the country.THE VERY IDEA SHOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL,but what is the point you are trying to make?ALL STATE GOVERNMENTS NEED TO STOP SPENDING MONEY FOOLISHLY!
@@DanielLehan Why would a taxation on gas be unconstitutional? And if it was, how would roads get paid for?
Might want to stop sending millions and millions to other countries and invest in our own infrastructure
No we don’t want to and we literally spent on a infrastructure bill
@@The_king567 not enough though
@@Convex. we should ban them
Reduce the defense budget. It's almost $1 TRILLION a year!!!
Lets try not to spend 20x more on Defense than the next country. Also lets tax the rich again! We built tons when we were getting money from them!
It’s pretty simple. Everyone who can is filling their pockets while our infrastructure falls apart.
Meanwhile, billions in tax dollars sent overseas fight wars! Smh
So, do you want to be invited by the President to help defend Warsaw?
[They were opened in 1910, and the power system is still the EXACT SAME on the portions of that track.] WRONG ANSWER -- Pennsylvania Station and its tunnels were originally built with only 600 volt DC third rail to power its trains. Steam powered Pennsylvania RR trains had to change engines at Manhattan Transfer in the Jersey Meadows. The 11,000 25 cycle AC trolley wire in Penn Station and out to Long Island were added during the 1930's electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad to Washington DC and Harrisburg PA (remember the GG1 locomotives?). And that 11,000 volt 25 cycle power supply IS STILL POWERING THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR!
charge people to breath oxygen to help with costs
😂😂😂
you joke, but I'm sure some team is off in some high rise right now trying to figure out how to do just that!
What is to note is that the average Japanese delay includes earthquakes and tsunami delays... I rode on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo, that rail line is 139 years old and had top speeds of 55 mph, 2 minute headways, and transports 4 million people per day without delay. But frankly comparing American rail infrastructure to Japan is too much, you can compare it to average developing countries and it'll still rank worse. No more excuses, we need to fix our infrastructure.
New Jersey needs bright line trains
Just think of if they cut the overblouted defense budget and endless wars. What the USA could be like. 🤔🤔
US defense budget has been going down for like 10 years. Update your rhetoric.
Along with projects, please fund ongoing maintenance and upgrades
It’s every week I go to the city for work. Leave the office at 5 don’t get home until 10pm some times it is insane
I feel for you. We had similar issues with our rail service here in RSA but it’s slowly coming along. It’s like they deliberately sabotage our rail system on purpose
Bear in mind that the entire North East Corridor has remained unchanged in over 80 years. And the infrastructure between Newark and New York Penn Station is over 100 years old. This despite being the most heavily used passenger rail route and the only profitable route operated by Amtrak.
Secret: The design failure of the original Acela train (it's 6" too wide) caused a huge loss of revenue than what was expected. Amtrak had told Congress they would use profits from the Acela to fix the infrastructure, but after the failure they couldn't go back and ask for more because someone might remember they were supposed to make enough money to fix the tracks. Amtrak sucks.
This is what happens when car infrastructure is prioritized over train infrastructure
Yea, people are commodities. That's what the powers that be think of us.
I have to say, they are absolutely spot on about this. Being well aware of how terrible our transportation infrastructure is, I had no clue how even more disappointed I’d be after being in Japan for a month…
I heard they were building a new tunnel and New Jersey needs brightline trains
This has been a broken country for a very long time now smdh
Meanwhile, billions sent overseas, with bills passed overnight.. I live in NJ, it’s a problem, like most infrastructure in the United States.
sorry for your property taxes
You do realise even if they didn't send money overseas, bipartisan politics is what is keeping money away from you getting your needs met. There will always be another reason you are told why money is not being spent on you.
its getting out of control in NJ and NYC
I lived in Brooklyn for over 50 years. I watched this sad situation unfold. New York, New Jersey and the feds: 1) rarely could agree on anything; 2) bungled projects they did agree on; and 3) failed to think big enough! At least 4 tunnels were needed (train & car). And I felt a tunnel allowing drivers to get from Brooklyn/Queens to New Jersey (bypassing Manhattan) would have been a big help.
But failure to come together & execute simple plans led to the current situation. Local & state politicians had no problem handing out permits to build skyscrapers/condos, but forgot/ignored projects to help low & middle class residents who already live in the 50-mile region around NYC.
This was a critical problem decades before covid & the migrant crisis. By the time 9-11 & Hurricane Sandy occurred, it was too late.
Mismanagement of infrastructure problems has had a devastating impact on the NYC metropolitan area. And ripple effects are felt nationwide.
Then y'all out here being depressed over congestion charge that supposed to be operational by July this year..... And when news like this showed up, y'all quickly blame MTA when ypur country itself couldn't sustained the subway, commuter rail and lrt in the northeast that are now suffocating.... Good luck y'all
Friends don’t let friends live in New Jersey.
You know, the money to fix this stuff was gonna come from congestion pricing...
Love how they want to spend billions of dollars to Ukraine & Gaza , but don't want to spend a dime in improving public transportation in the US.
Girlfriend brought up a good point though: If you're in Hoboken you can take the PATH Train or water taxi to get in if the delays are that bad. It's also surprising that they won't just let people work from home,despite commuting into Manhattan is such a well-known issue.
Thank god for PATH trains from Hoboken and Jersey City. But yes, this is an embarrassment
Where's our Secretary of Transportation?
So my $15 ticket as a tourist visitor didn't completely pay for the new tunnel infrastructure bill. Darn it
Once they allowed the suing of the city, it was over. All they do is pay out litigation now. There is no money for much else.
The problem with the infrastructure is the government demands that private sectors handle the work, if I were the CEO of Amtrak and got a letter from the governor telling me we need to fix it immediately, I would just shut the doors and tell them to fix it himself if it's so easy.
Notice how they didn't mention China this time? #1 visited city in America is literally crumbling apart compared to china's tier3 middle of nowhere city subway system
"100,000 hours of delays in 2022..."
0:24 she’s wrong , 8th largest economy in the world is GDP per capita. USA is the richest country on earth. Per capita doesn’t mean nothing for the U.S.
Let me be clear USA can build something for $5 billion which is a lot of money for Luxembourg the richest countries in the world per capita.
USA can spend over trillion dollars in military yearly. Can Luxembourg spend $100 billion on defense? No.
Holy moly how did you end up writing a comments that’s a mixture of lack of understanding of gross domestic product, inability to comprehend and just being completely wrong
@@onememory6484New Jersey needs the new brightline trains
When you see 95Bn being thrown away to Israel and Ukraine , it really hurts…. Infrastructure is where they should have spent some of that money…
I rode LIRR, MetroNorth, Metra, CalTrain, Sounder but NJ Transit by far had the worst looking stations especially North Jersey
Crumbling infrastructure? Misleading. This is just infrastructure that needs better heat resistance. Don’t make it into more than it is.
What's the largest economy in the world big deal I mean diddly squat for the person who's actually part of it
Oddly enough, Florida is completing projects left and right.
@@tonyburzio4107 yeah they're completing projects like every other place like saying here here it is I made this I make that and that's what we've been doing that's called progress supposedly okay and what happens absolutely nothing call society is crumbling right before the projects
The "Greatest Nation on Earth" has the public infrastructure worse than some developing countries...
Florida is just fine, thanks.
@@tonyburzio4107 Florida just got its first train line, a diesel-driven "high speed" line with level crossings and at enormous prices... what is fine about that?
@@martinpreggerI heard France has problems too
Overpopulation
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, I took Amtrak Acela from NYC to Boston, Boston to NYC several MTA subway trips and then a roundtrip from NYC to Red Bank, NJ. EVERY. SINGLE. TRAIN was delayed. I even had to wait over 30 minutes for a downtown A line subway from Penn Station in the sweltering heat. The infrastructure in and around NYC is straight up third world siht and there are countless places to assign blame. They recently spent $8 BILLION to build a new transit station at Ground Zero and spent more billions for the Moynihan annex to Penn Station, yet they still can't build a second tunnel to NJ or update the switches? Then there is the pro-criminal woke pandering Democratic buffoons who refuse to prosecute fare jumpers, which costs the MTA $700 million in lost revenue per year. There are countless billions of dollars being grifted by unions, workers "working overtime" (while vacationing at their second homes in Florida), draconian regulations and permits for which there are countless open palms expecting payment. The transit unions ensure that no workers are fired and that people are rewarded for mediocrity and laziness. There is no reason why the cost to fix infrastructure in NYC should be 10x what it would cost in any other city. The entire leadership of NY, NYC, MTA, Amtrak, Port Authority and every union needs to be flushed down the toilet and rebuilt from scratch with transparency and ethical oversight. We need a visionary like Vivek Ramaswamy or Elon Musk to shock the system and make things work again.
Politicans complain about infrastructure and politics but don't have the balls to put their money where their mouths are. Crazy!
Why is this news this is daily lol
10% is delayed which they define as over 10 minutes late it’s not line Japan where it actually means on time that 10% is 30 minutes delay often
Investing in roads/highways and cars is one of the reasons why we don't have a competent railway system. Put some money on it to expand and make it better. Just like everything else we want to do and are serious about..
Here's some context NBC left out.
1) As shortsighted as it was for then Governor Christie to cancel the tunnel project back in 2010, he said it was because he was afraid NJ was going to be entirely on the hook for the cost overruns.
2) Most of Amtrak's delays are outside the Boston-NY-Washington Corridor where they do not own their tracks, the freight railroads do and their dispatchers have been giving priority to their mile-long freight trains over passenger trains.
Then again, the number of freight locomotives pulling broken down Amtrak trains is truly stunning.
Amtrak is responsible for the NEC track……… NJT is at Amtrak’s mercy with this perpetual BS.
It just happened again when I was on New Jersey transit
More like 2045 😂
8th largest democracy in the world is such a flex dude
Reminder the did gets a blank check for over a trillion dollars a year but we can’t spent the same amount over 10 years on upgrading one of the most economically important commuter trains up and running
Those tunnels were built from 1902-1910 by the Pennsylvania Railroad for electric use, they were a modern marvel, to see them dilapidated and ignored is such a shame.
Other countries have such better transit systems. Such a shame that this country has a break first then fix it attitude. Shameful
There’s money for Ukraine though
89.5% on-time is not something to brag about. One in every 10 trains is late.
NJ Transit has sucked for years. Fare hikes and problems problems problems.
It a 100+ years old. They are going as fast as they can.
Nonsense. If you've taken NJ-NY Transit you know the Truth.
1:24
I know what New Jersey is like. The Action Park scandal was enough to convince me.
You have to pay for upgrade and then DO THAT why are people surprised?
How does this affect LeBrons legacy
Even Europe has better rail transport since I was on an RER from the airport to Paris and it looked like it ran on time.
Wait till next year, having to protect themselves is causing all kinds of budget problems in France.
I mean $66 billion is earmarked for rail infrastructure in the next 7-10 years. It’s going to take time to fix these things
Japan would have that done in 3 weeks with a singing kitty cat sign
And yet again today. Sitting, not moving. It's been 30mins at secaucus
Imagine going to work that you can do remotely
Too bad the Gov of new york axed the congestion pricing which would have aided in the budget of the mta for improvements and possibly also resulted in a boost for NJTransit ridership /income to also aid in improvements as well. But its not like news outlets werent running fear segments about it the whole time. So what now?
Know that.i know your point
Christy asked who was picking up the 3 billion overrun---- NY went silent---he said pull the plug. My company went back to Ca and worked on the Metro on Crenshaw Blvd--it went over budget
I wonder what commuters in Ukraine think when they hear NBC reporting on the “nightmare” conditions associated with rail delays in NYC.
New York doesn’t give af about NJ. If you work in NYC you gotta be on the other side of the river.
4:03 Listen to this accurate hard fact!!! Spread and share this video across the nation!!!
Where is the money going?! Other countries do more with less
Again? Didn’t they just do this 3 weeks ago?
Imagine that, with the highest population and tax rate in the nation. Not an economic problem..its a fraudualnt politican problem..
Politics is ruining infrastructure indeed. Sad to see. We need to be the trailblazers in infrastructure but currently we are falling way behind.
Transit Joe (Biden), we need you!!!!
Even train in Japan is better than this
You can largely thank two republicans (Christie & Trump) for each killing the Gateway Project when they had the chance… time for NJT to demand its own dedicated tracks so we do not need to suffer under Amtrak’s shortcomings.
Mayor Pete likes trains.
But, it's NEW YORK CITY so it's worth it.
They need to start building new tunnels to reduce congestion
If you watched the video, they told you they are doing that
Ok
Can the media stop saying politics when they mean the Republican Party. It has been the GOP that has stopped investment in rail for decades. Thanks to Biden we were able to just now get some funding.
This is what happens when you send $100+ BILLION DOLLARS to ukraine!
High density urbanist train people:
"More lanes don't solve anything."
Train Authorities in high density urban areas:
"We need more train lanes."
train lanes can carry way more people than car lanes
Why hasn’t democrats like Murphy and Cuomo actually done anything about this rather than wagging fingers
Joe Biden rather send six billion to Ukraine and Israel