How We Mapped Nightmare Commutes on NJ Transit
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People stand at a NJ Transit ticketing booth at Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York on Friday, May 16, 2025.
Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/BloombergToday we’re bringing you a special edition of MapLab from Aaron Gordon, our colleague on the data team.
Last summer I wrote about a stalled New Jersey Transit commuter train that trapped passengers inside a tunnel for three hours during a heat wave with no air conditioning. The overwhelming reader reaction in my inbox was that I had failed to capture the full extent to which service disruptions on the aging system infuriate riders.