The company line fails N.J. rail line users
Editorial
NJ Transit’s River LINE passenger service between Trenton and Camden was interrupted for several hours Wednesday, but it wasn’t for the usual reasons that the agency’s trains fail to show up.
The light rail line’s service was suspended between 9:21 a.m. and 2:44 p.m. so employees could attend the funeral of their co-worker Jessica Haley, a train operator who was killed Oct. 14 when the train she was running hit a tree that had fallen on the tracks in Mansfield Township.
It’s a much more somber, and considerably more compassionate, reason than NJ Transit train passengers have become accustomed to for delays and lack of service, such as equipment problems, insufficient crews and too few cars for a full schedule.