Martin Robins, director emeritus of Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, who worked at NJ Transit in its heyday, said it will take time to undo the problems plaguing an agency the size of NJ Transit, but a steady infusion of money is key.
“The Legislature has a role in this … they went along with budgets that were nowhere near adequate and they didn’t ask the right questions, and so they reinforced [former Gov. Chris] Christie’s policies by approving his budgets, and you end up paying a very, very sad price for that,” Robins said.