(The following appeared on the Star-Ledger website on February 11, 2011.)
NEWARK, N.J. — The wicked January weather that left moon-crater potholes in highways and buried cars in driveways also stopped train riders in their tracks.
It was NJ Transit’s worst month for train delays in six years.
Trains were late six or more minutes 8.8 percent of the time last month, the worst showing since January 2005, when the number was 11.1 percent. Last year, only 4.1 percent of trains were tardy for the same month.
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