New Jersey Transit Withholds Data Subpoenaed for Lawmakers’ Safety Probe
- Committee denied access to reports on finances, compliance
- Panel advice to incoming governor: Tear it down and start anew
NJ Transit officials initially told lawmakers that they would share whatever was asked of them, so long as the information didn’t compromise confidentiality, and they provided documents in batches
Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesNew Jersey Transit is suppressing internal documents subpoenaed by state legislators investigating how the once-model commuter system fell into a safety and financial crisis.
Eight years of reports by NJ Transit’s auditor general haven’t been provided. Neither have records about delayed installation of life-saving train technology. Though NJ Transit has handed over 28,000 pages of documents, the missing information may point to troubles deeper than what lawmakers have found so far at the nation’s biggest statewide mass-transit agency, vital to New Jersey’s economy as a link to New York City jobs.