Gov. Phil Murphy has for the past month or so been on a public-transit fueled victory lap, touting new development projects with gleaming office towers and swanky apartment buildings. On Wednesday, he was in Woodbridge for the announcement of developers for a project at Metropark Station.
Murphy extolled the “twenty different station projects going on at the moment, from small renovations to massive projects like this one here in Metropark,” adding, “Some of these, and I ask folks for patience, but it will be worth it. At the end of the rainbow, the state will have been transformed.”
NJ Transit has certainly ramped up its revenue-generating projects but there are critics who say it has taken a less vigorous approach to customer service, the most glaring example of which is that the position of Commuter Advocate, whose occupant is supposed to stand up for commuters, has been vacant for two years.
