NJ Governor Blasts Amtrak Over ‘Unmitigated Disaster’ in Rush Hour Commute
- Amtrak apologizes to riders as railroad investigates incident
- Some NJ trains were still seeing residual delays on Thursday
An Amtrak train arrives at Newark Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey.
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy slammed Amtrak over a system failure that caused “an unmitigated disaster” resulting in delays for thousands of commuters in his state and the New York area during the evening rush hour Wednesday.
The breakdown marked the third infrastructure failure involving Amtrak in two days, Murphy said in a letter Thursday to Anthony Coscia, chairman of the national passenger railroad. Commuters were stranded for hours at New York’s Penn Station with some passengers stuck on trains in between tracks for over three hours, he said.