In August, a Federal Railroad Administration's report said NJ Transit has only installed one-third of its positive train control system. It then extended a 2015 deadline to the end of 2018. In 2008, Congress mandated rail companies fully implement PTC to save lives. Positive train control, or PTC, uses GPS and other technology as an emergency braking system designed to prevent train-to-train collisions and derailments due to excessive speed and trains passing through switches left in the wrong position.
NJ Transit needs to install positive train control on all of its rail systems before the year-end deadline. Train fares will be cut by 10 percent in November, December and January. These schedule adjustments are temporary, expected to last into mid-January 2019. Other trains throughout the system have schedule and/or station stop adjustments. The schedule changes, affecting more than two dozen trains, began Sunday and impact customers along the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line, Morris & Essex Lines, Montclair-Boonton, and Main and Bergen County Lines.
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