State leaders are trying to return some normalcy through gradual reopenings. With that comes providing more commuting options. Train, bus and ferry services have returned to near pre-coronavirus schedules despite a dramatic drop in ridership and plummeting revenues. The PATH system between New York and New Jersey increased service in mid-June to meet demand and rolled out a number of new safety and social distance guidelines. But the rail system faces an uphill battle if commuters don’t feel comfortable enough to return. PATH General Manager Clarelle DeGraffe joins Senior Correspondent Briana Vannozzi to discuss what’s ahead for the agency.
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.