



Customers can view the statistics for themselves on NJ TRANSIT’s website to view the agency’s public performance dashboard, which includes industry-standard statistics on performance and service reliability. And light rail performance improved from 96.6% to 97.5% in FY2020. On-time performance for buses improved from 91.3% in FY2019 to 94% in FY2020. NJ TRANSIT marked 100 percent completion of the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) requirement to install Positive Train Control (PTC) before the Decemdeadline – despite being only 12% complete in January 2018 toward an interim December 2018 installation milestoneįrom Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to FY2020, on-time performance for NJ TRANSIT trains has improved from 90% to 92.3%. Since 2018, the company has made considerable progress to fulfill mandatory safety requirements, modernize its fleet, communicate real-time service status conveniently, and recruit and train for critical positions, such as bus operators and locomotive engineers. NJ TRANSIT operates thousands of trains, buses, and light rail trips every day. NJ TRANSIT has also added more than 1,000 bus operators since 2018 and continues to recruit, hire and train for critical frontline positions , including locomotive engineers, conductors and bus operators. For more than 16 months, NJ TRANSIT’s dedicated front-line employees have kept essential workers and those who depend on transit on the move, while continuing to improve the on-time performance of its trains, buses, and light rail.Īs NJ TRANSIT customers return to the office, they’ll notice improved reliability thanks to the work over the last three years to fully restore the ranks of locomotive engineers, graduating more than 100 new engineers since 2018. NEWARK- NJ TRANSIT never wavered in its focus on enhancing performance and reliability while keeping customers safe on its transit system despite the many challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
