The two railroads that carry riders into and out of New York City do not yet know what caused commuter chaos earlier this summer. Once they find out, they may be years away from fixing problems on the nation’s busiest stretch of passenger railway.
That’s the bottom line of a new report from Amtrak and New Jersey Transit scrutinizing what waylaid commuters earlier this summer.
While many of the problems were cast as weather-related by the railroads, this summer’s high temperatures alone cannot explain what happened.
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“It can’t be only the heat,” Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner said in an interview.
