Just Because those Buses Are Packed Doesn’t Mean the Fares were Paid in Full. The Bus Company Won’t Admit It Publicly in Fear of Bad Public Relations but those Routes probably have a High Rate of Non-Paying Riders. The Drivers won’t Confront the fare beaters to avoid Violence and the Police won’t respond over a $2.75 missing fare.
Great news. New Jersey Transit will, as of October 9th, take over the affected bus routes in the Newark & Vicinity area. And the routes are getting their full weekend service back.
100% correct. For now it's the low income folks feeling it, but soon enough the bougie people will feel it too and it will be jarring to say the least.
I'm actually ok with this after my bad experience involving the 24B before COVID. I was going to Bible Study in Elizabeth's Trinitas Regional on East Jersey Street around 18:40 one night and i was standing outside until dang near 20:00. The 24B never showed up and I ended up missing bible study. I swore they would regret that and I vowed to never ride the 24 unless i ABSOLUTELY had to. After that, I've only ridden them 2-4x within the few years after that incident. Plus, the 24 is the most ratchet Coach USA bus route ever! Goodbye Coach USA buses. That and they don't accept rail passes. Goodbye Coach USA. New Jersey Transit better have some new routes to replace it for customer convenience like they did after DeCamp bit the dust.
Relax, will you? NJT is taking over those routes effective either this Sunday or Monday. Despite your concerns, those routes *are* of the paramount importance to the residents living in the Oranges, Newark and Elizabeth communities.
@@tyrese3745 First of all, I am relaxed. Secondly, I already know that. 😒 Finally, I'm not the only one who dislikes Coach USA so I'm allowed to voice my experience with them.
@@JoshuaTheTransitProdigy Okay, I’m sorry. I guess I just have this feeling, this East Orange fever in me. I grew up taking the buses with my mom back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, when the 24 & 44 *were* under contract with NJT while the 31 was a private system (South Orange Avenue IBOA). Yes, I, too, am also one of the many people who hated what the lines became when Coach USA took over in the early 2000s, but I have always counted on them to get me to my jobs. I’m with you. I want change, too. And I hope NJT can make that change.
Just Because those Buses Are Packed Doesn’t Mean the Fares were Paid in Full. The Bus Company Won’t Admit It Publicly in Fear of Bad Public Relations but those Routes probably have a High Rate of Non-Paying Riders. The Drivers won’t Confront the fare beaters to avoid Violence and the Police won’t respond over a $2.75 missing fare.
Great news. New Jersey Transit will, as of October 9th, take over the affected bus routes in the Newark & Vicinity area.
And the routes are getting their full weekend service back.
Why can’t NJ transit take this lines?
They did. The bus runs way better now.
@@amuroray1085 The agency had no choice.
As the usa transitions to a 3rd world country, expect more of this. There is nothing in the constitution that guarantees bus service.
100% correct. For now it's the low income folks feeling it, but soon enough the bougie people will feel it too and it will be jarring to say the least.
Pay your fair share
Tyrone and Laqueefa
Damn the 31
I'm actually ok with this after my bad experience involving the 24B before COVID. I was going to Bible Study in Elizabeth's Trinitas Regional on East Jersey Street around 18:40 one night and i was standing outside until dang near 20:00. The 24B never showed up and I ended up missing bible study. I swore they would regret that and I vowed to never ride the 24 unless i ABSOLUTELY had to. After that, I've only ridden them 2-4x within the few years after that incident. Plus, the 24 is the most ratchet Coach USA bus route ever! Goodbye Coach USA buses. That and they don't accept rail passes. Goodbye Coach USA. New Jersey Transit better have some new routes to replace it for customer convenience like they did after DeCamp bit the dust.
Relax, will you? NJT is taking over those routes effective either this Sunday or Monday.
Despite your concerns, those routes *are* of the paramount importance to the residents living in the Oranges, Newark and Elizabeth communities.
@@tyrese3745
First of all, I am relaxed. Secondly, I already know that. 😒 Finally, I'm not the only one who dislikes Coach USA so I'm allowed to voice my experience with them.
@@JoshuaTheTransitProdigy Okay, I’m sorry. I guess I just have this feeling, this East Orange fever in me. I grew up taking the buses with my mom back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, when the 24 & 44 *were* under contract with NJT while the 31 was a private system (South Orange Avenue IBOA).
Yes, I, too, am also one of the many people who hated what the lines became when Coach USA took over in the early 2000s, but I have always counted on them to get me to my jobs. I’m with you. I want change, too. And I hope NJT can make that change.
@@JoshuaTheTransitProdigy But, again, I am sorry.
@@tyrese3745 So the 24 bus routes were with NJT before being with Coach USA?