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Pedestrian Killed By Train Near Delair Bridge: NJ Transit
One person was fatally struck by an Atlantic City Rail Line bound for Philadelphia early Monday, April 1, authorities told Daily Voice. Train 4608 departed Atlantic City at 4:11 a.m. and was due at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station at 5:47 a.m., but hit and killed a pedestrian near the Delair Bridge around 5:40 a.m., NJ Transit officials said. None of the passengers or crew onboard were hurt, authorities said. Service between Philadelphia 30th Street and Cherry Hill was shuttered Monday morning but has since resumed. NJ Transit rail tickets are being cro…
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$200 Million Healthcare Center Breaks Ground At NJ Transit Station
A new $200 million health and wellness center is hours away from breaking ground at none other than a NJ Transit station. The Hackensack Meridian Health facility will break ground Friday, March 8 at the New Jersey Transit Metropark Station in Iselin. The first of its kind, the center is expected to be completed by 2025. Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to join hospital, transportation and other elected officials as well as developers at an 11 a.m. ceremony, according to a hospital press statement. It's billed as the first accessible health and wellness center at a major transit hub nation…
Traffic
Stranded Travelers Slam Amtrak, NJ Transit Amid Service Suspension (
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Hundreds of travelers were left stranded Thursday morning, July 6. Enraged Amtrak and NJ Transit customers took to Twitter during morning rush hour as power issues at Amrak's Metropark station in New Jersey halted service from Philadelphia to New York, With no substitute transportation available, crews were working to restore power as of 9:40 p.m. Service to NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor was also impacted. Northeast Corridor rail service is suspended in both directions between Trenton and Metropark due to Amtrak overhead wire issues. North Jersey Coast Line rail service will experie…
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Man Killed By Amtrak Train In Central Jersey Was Family Breadwinner, Loved Ones Say
Friends of the family of a 39-year-old man struck and killed by an Amtrak train in New Jersey are reaching out with support. Sreekanth Digala, who died Tuesday night, Feb. 28 in Plainsboro, loved ones say on a GoFundMe campaign. He is survived by his wife, Suvarchala, and their son, Aneesh, who is 10 years old. "Sreekanth is the only breadwinner for his family and the sole responsible person for his 70+-year-old parents and in-laws down in India," the GoFundMe organizer wrote. The GoFundMe organizer wrote, "He was a very good human being and a Hardworking individual as free…
Police & Fire
Details Released In Amtrak Strike Of Man, 39, That Caused Major Delays
A 39-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in New Jersey, delaying rail service between Philadelphia and New York City Tuesday evening, Feb. 28, authorities said. The name of the man killed had not been released pending notification of family, said Lt. John Bresnen of the Plainsboro Police Department. Amtrak train 178 was traveling from Washington D.C. to Boston at 6:54 p.m. when the victim was struck east of Princeton Junction, an Amtrak spokesman said. The incident stranded frustrated customers on Northeast Corridor trains. As of 9:50 p.m., service was beginning …
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Train In Princeton
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Princeton Friday, Nov. 4, authorities said. Northeast Corridor train 3953, which had left form Penn station New York, struck the victim around 6:35 p.m. at Princeton Junction station, NJ Transit officials said. No injuries were reported to the customers or the crew on board. Northeast Corridor service was temporarily suspended in both directions but has since resumed. Amtrak police were leading the investigation with assistance from New Jersey Transit Police.
Traffic
Twitter Fumes Over Amtrak Outage Between NYC/Philly, NJ Transit Delays
Amtrak and New Jersey Transit commuters were off to a frustrating start Wednesday, Nov. 2. All Amtrak trains were stopped between New York Penn Station and Philadelphia, with delays of up to 45 minutes reported for NJT. Trains were in motion as of 7:30, but until then, commuters took to Twitter to vent — specifically on Amtrak's post announcing the outage that caused the standstill. That's not an update. We've been stuck for 2 hours now. No updates, no power, just sitting in the cold. — felon musk (@tylerdecolorado) November 2, 2022 Amtrak's outage caused delays on NJT. Northeast…
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Fatal Pedestrian Crash Stops Amtrak Trains Along East Coast
Amtrak trains along the East Coast were at a standstill due to a fatal pedestrian strike north of Washington DC and a junkyard fire in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Riders were told around 7 p.m. that they'd be stuck in their locations due to the massive fire and person struck by the train in Lanham, Maryland. Both incidents forced Amtrak to halt service throughout the region, up through Penn Station in New York. Some trains began moving around 8:10 p.m. #BreakingNews All #Amtrak activity north of Washington, DC has been halted after a train struck a pedestrian north of the New Ca…
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Feds: NJ Service Station Manager Admits Stealing $78,000 From Amtrak, Regular Customers
A New Jersey service station manager admitted stealing $78,000 from more than 17 customers, including Amtrak, through bogus charges for gas, federal authorities said. Umer Hassan Mir, 40, of South Amboy told a federal judge in Newark on Tuesday that he deposited the charges into the coffers of a Delta gas station in Metuchen, then siphoned off the proceeds in cash from the register over the course of 3½ years. Some of the bogus charges were entered on fuel credit cards leased by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and assigned to Amtrak vehicles, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger…
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Amtrak Worker Gets 18 Months Without Parole For Selling Stolen Agency Equipment
UPDATE: A now-former Amtrak employee from the Jersey Shore was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for selling hundreds of chainsaws and chainsaw parts that he stole from the agency. Jose Rodriguez, 49, of Brick, will have to serve out the entire sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Rodriguez had collected 114 chainsaws, 122 chainsaw replacement bars and 222 replacement chains worth more than $76,000 before he was caught, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. He sold the items through online auction and directly to buyers, using the U.S. Postal Serv…
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TSA Drops Mask Mandate For Planes, Public Transit... For Now
Face masks will no longer be enforced on airplanes and other modes of public transport after a federal judge ruled the order unconstitutional Monday, April 18. The decision comes after U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said in a 59-page decision that the CDC overstepped its authority by enforcing the 14-month directive. The Biden administration was in the process of reviewing and deciding whether or not to appeal it as of Monday evening, multiple news outlets report. The Amtrak rail system and TSA both rescinded the mandate, but the CDC – which extended the mask mandate through …
Police & Fire
Ex-Amtrak Engineer Cleared In Deadly Philadelphia Train Derailment
A former Amtrak engineer has been cleared in a deadly train derailment in Philadelphia in 2015. Brandon Bostian's train was going 106 mph — more than double the speed limit on the tracks — on an S-curve when he slammed on the brakes in Frankford Junction in May 2015. The train, headed to Washington D.C. from New York City, jumped the tracks, killing eight people and sending 185 to the hospital. Federal officials said Bostian lost "situational awareness" and briefly thought he was past the S-curve and on a straightaway. Bostian's lawyer during the trial described him as a l…
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Ex-Amtrak Worker From NJ Admits Stealing, Selling Agency Equipment
UPDATE: For more than eight years, a now-former Amtrak employee from the Jersey Shore collected chainsaws and chainsaw parts from the agency, then sold them and kept the money. Federal authorities eventually caught on to Jose Rodriguez, 49, of Brick, then got a conviction for mail fraud. Hired in October 2007, Rodriguez worked as a senior engineer and repairman at Amtrak's North Brunswick facility, authorities said. Five years later, Rodriguez admitted in federal court, he began gathering equipment under the false pretense that they'd be used for company projects. Before he was caught in …
Obituaries
Pennsylvania Law Student, 23, Dies In Vermont Train Crash, Police Say
A law student native to Pennsylvania has died in a train crash, according to police in Vermont. Thomas R. Fennel, 23, of Pittsburgh, was killed while reversing his green Jeep Cherokee near train tracks when an Amtrak train collided with his vehicle, according to police in Vermont. Royalton Vermont police were called to a motor vehicle versus train crash at Stearns Road on Tuesday around 11:25 a.m., according to a release by police. Upon arrival, Chief Loretta Stalnaker observed Fennel's green Jeep Cherokee on the west side of South Windsor Street in the grassy area between the road and the…
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Feds Charge NJ Amtrak Employee With Stealing, Fencing Chainsaws, Parts
Federal agents arrested an Amtrak employee from the Jersey Shore who they said stole chainsaws and part and sold them online. Working as a senior engineer and repairman at the rail service’s North Brunswick facility, Jose Rodriguez clipped 77 chainsaws, 103 bars, and 163 chains with a combined value of well over $50,000 between August 2016 and July 2020, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Tuesday. Rodriguez used an online auction service to sell most of the items to buyers through the country, she said. He also “directly contacted one purchaser on multiple occasions offering to sel…
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Killed By Amtrak Train In New Brunswick
A pedestrian was fatally struck by an Amtrak train Wednesday night in Middlesex County, authorities said. The victim's name and age have not been released. It is not clear why they were on the tracks. Amtrak Train No. 134 was headed to New York City from Washington when it struck the person about 6:25 p.m. in New Brunswick, Jason C. Abrams, an Amtrak spokesman, said. The 68 passengers and four crew members on the Amtrak train were not hurt, and the train was delayed by more than three hours, Abrams said. The fatality resulted in delays to five other Amtrak trains, he said. New Brunsw…
Police & Fire
2nd Trenton Person Struck On Amtrak Railway In 16 Hours
A person was struck by on an Amtrak rail line on Friday afternoon in Mercer County, authorities said. It was the second person struck by a train in Trenton within 16 hours. An unidentified victim was on the tracks near Lalor Street and Route 129 and in Trenton when the fatal accident occurred about 2 p.m, Trenton police said. Another person, still unidentified, was killed by a train about 10 p.m. Thursday near Bridge and Ferry streets in Trenton, Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said. This is a developing story. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
Police & Fire
Person Struck, Killed On Amtrak Railway In Trenton
A person was struck and killed by on an Amtrak railway on Thursday night in Mercer County, authorities said. The unidentified victim was on the tracks near Bridge and Ferry streets in Trenton when the fatal accident occurred about 10 p.m., said Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams. The person was pronounced dead at the scene, but not yet identified, Abrams said on Friday. This is a developing story. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
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