Will North Brunswick Train Station Help/Hurt Home values?

[davenj08]

Originally Posted by vision33r

I think NEC has too many train stations, the problem is the train schedules are horrible. When I started riding NJT 10 years ago, we used to get 10-15min schedules consistently during rush hour. Now they have these 10 min schedules for a very short window then follow by 20-30min gaps even for major stations it's bad. I spoke to a train crew and they said they are running less frequent but more train cars to pack more people on. They claim this is more efficient than running many empty trains.

There are not enough stations on the NEC line, especially between Jersey Ave and Princeton. That is a good 14 mile suburban patch with high population density and high percentage of folks commuting to Jersey City or New York. A train station is absolutely required.

Originally Posted by vision33r

You see folks that missed express trains all hop on local trains then followed by empty express trains behind it. Because the train schedules are a mess, they don't run consistent schedules and there are less trains running than before.

More train stations will increase delays, I'm sure NJT knows this and can't decide on what to do unless there is an upgrade to the existing infrastructure. At the end of the day, there's not enough tunnels going into NYC.

The North Brunswick train station will not add new trains to the NEC. Either trains that now start from Jersey Ave will start from the new station, or express lines coming from Trenton will stop. I am yet to see a NEC train running empty. I have had to stand numerous times, both morning and evening rush hours, because every single seat in the train was taken.

[TonyStarksNJ]

Whispers from those in the know around town say this is going to happen.

https://jerseydigs.com/main-street-n...ansit-station/

[TonyStarksNJ]

Announcement scheduled for Saturday. This is happening folks. Funding was the only thing holding this up

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/new-br...runswick-train

[nybbler]

Originally Posted by vision33r

I think NEC has too many train stations, the problem is the train schedules are horrible. When I started riding NJT 10 years ago, we used to get 10-15min schedules consistently during rush hour.

You know the limit. Not quite 24 trains per hour through the Hudson River tunnel, total for all lines. So you've got the express from Princeton Junction, the Jersey Avenue running express from Metropark, the local originating at Rahway, and the local that skips only Jersey Ave. Run that every 10 minutes and that's all your capacity. There's three other lines! Probably you were getting schedules like that before the Midtown Direct opened.