June 30, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Trains.com, June 27, 2025) The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority board has approved a fiscal 2026 budget including a 45% cut in service and a 21.5% fare increase to address a $213 million deficit. Under the approved budget, service cuts will...
May 22, 2025 | Commuter Rail, News, Top News
The Rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol was packed in mid-May with BLET members from SEPTA and the members of other transit unions from across the state, who were joined by business leaders and transit riders urging the state legislature to support adequate...
May 20, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: USA Today, May 18, 2025) New Jersey Transit trains will begin operating again after the agency reached a deal with striking rail engineers on wage increases, the engineers’ union said, ending a three-day work stoppage that affected about 350,000...
May 18, 2025 | Commuter Rail, News, Top News
NEWARK — This afternoon, May 18, the BLET and NJ Transit reached a tentative agreement, ending a strike that began Friday. Union members will return to work and trains will begin running on their regular schedules Tuesday, May 20. Terms of the agreement will be sent...
April 15, 2025 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, April 14, 2025) One of the first construction projects associated with the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel project beneath the Hudson River — the Tonnelle Avenue overpass and relocation of the utilities in North Bergen — is expected to be...
April 11, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Trains.com, April 10, 2025) The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has become the latest transit agency to unveil plans for draconian service cuts because of a funding shortage. Five Regional Rail lines and 50 bus lines would be eliminated,...
January 23, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, National Mediation Board, Unions
(Source: Transport Workers Union press release, January 14, 2025) Onboard Attendants and Lead Attendants on the Brightline railroad in Florida voted today, Tuesday, January 14, 2025, to join the Transport Workers Union of America. The National Mediation Board...
January 22, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, January 22, 2025) Kris Kolluri, the new head of NJ Transit, is imploring the union that represents locomotive engineers to come to the table before a possible strike in March. In a statement released yesterday, Eddie Hall, national president...
January 21, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: NorthJersey.com, January 21, 2025) A presidential emergency board has sided with NJ Transit for the second time over contract negotiations between the railroad agency and the locomotive engineers’ union. “Trains don’t move without engineers,” said Tom...
January 9, 2025 | Commuter Rail, Contract Negotiations, Headlines
(Source: NJ.com, December 18, 2025) A key date for commuters to be concerned about is March 21, 2025, when a 120-day cooling off period ends, which under the federal Railway Labor Act gives the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen the right to strike or NJ...
