Sunday at the Jersey City Desk, more boring yet vital reading

If you live in New Jersey chances are, and Johnny's guessing here, you've been on some kind of train. Since this article deals with rail safety over the last twenty years, we'll use that as our baseline. Sometime in these last twenty years you've gotten on some kind of NJ-based train, PATH, Amtrak, NJ Transit, HB Light Rail, you're probably been on one.

In somewhat alarming news, especially after the horrible train accident in Philadelphia this week, did you know then 600 trains have derailed in New.Jersey over past twenty years AND the rate of "human error" in those derailments is TWICE the national average? Sobering news and you're probably wanting to know more at this point, good for you Johnny has a link.

Officially they say 95% of trains in and out of NYC run on time; Reality says different

While officials of the transportation rail lines in and out of NYC boast a 95% on-time record, the actual record and riders perception sure seems to differ. The New York Times got hold of some never before used documents to lay this little white on-time lie to waste. In fact they found it was nowhere close to 95%, or 90%, or 80%. Read on citizen and feel free to share your commuting horror stories.