NJ Transit Cross-Honoring Tickets During Storm

Cross-honoring in effect through Thursday.

As the area braces for a potential three-to-five inches of tardy snow (not quite a White Christmas, but close, right?), NJ Transit announced that it would be cross-honoring of tickets starting at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Cross-honoring will remain in effect until the end of the service day Thursday, Dec. 27, enabling customers to use their ticket or pass on an alternate travel mode—rail, bus or light rail. For example, customers who normally take the bus from Rutherford to the Port Authority Bus Terminal may use their bus pass on the train from Rutherford to New York Penn Station. Similarly, customers who normally take the bus between Atlantic City and Lindenwold may use the train instead. Customers are reminded that many NJ Transit rail lines …

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Leonard Resto

7:41 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Typical NJ Transit. They will cross-honor tickets during the storm. They should do that all the time! There shouldn't be a difference between having a bus ticket or a rail ticket, it's all going to the same pocket- NJ Transit. It would be helpful if NJT would, at some point, let customers know what their travel options are if rail is out. For example, if service goes out on the Morris & Essex …   more ›

Snow Lie: We Broke The Record

January 2011 will go down in the record books.

Someday we’ll laugh about this: January 2011 will enter the record books for the most snow in 116 years. That's great news for sellers of snowblowers and shovels as well as stores that carry sleds, snowshoes, and other snow-related equipment. But bad news for those of us who have to shovel the snow ourselves.  The state’s climatologist made the call on Thursday in New Brunswick, which is used as the yardstick for measurement. With 16.1 inches of fresh powder, this month has toppled a record set in 1894, said Dr. David A. Robinson, chairman of the department of geography at Rutgers University.  A total of 30.9 inches of snow has fallen in New Brunswick in January. That’s a lot for January, and a lot for any winter month. In fact, there’s …

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Schools Closing Early as Snow Blows In

Up to 8 inches of snow, rain and sleet predicted.

Schools in Livingston and the library will close early on Wednesday because of the snow. “This winter has been getting worse, and now it’s getting ugly,” said Michael Anello, superintendent of Public Works. His crews have been out since 7 a.m. salting township streets. Heavy snow has been falling all morning but is expected to taper off and turn to rain over the next few hours, he said. That should help when schools begin letting students go home at noon. At 10 a.m. Anello described road conditions as “poor and slippery.” He asked residents to use caution while driving. It will take his crews up to five hours to plow township roads once plowing begins, usually when roads are covered with three inches of snow. "I may have to start plowing …

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Where Would You Rather Be? Anywhere But Here

The forecast calls for snow, rain and sleet on Wednesday, with 8 inches of snow possible.

Snow on Tuesday morning was just the preview of what's coming on Wednesday. That's when the National Weather Service is predicting ugly weather and another 4 to 8 inches of snow. While we’ve been getting used to weekly snowfalls, Wednesday's storm won’t be at all typical. Expect snow, rain, snow, sleet, snow, rain … well you get the idea. Wednesday’s storm is a difficult one to forecast. “We will be flirting with the freezing point at times,” said Dr. David A. Robinson, the state's climatologist. “It isn't all that common to start as snow, go to rain and then go back to a substantial accumulating snow, but that is what the forecasters are suggesting.” How much snow we get depends on timing and duration of turnovers, Robinson said. …

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With 4 More Inches of Snow, Livingston Schools Will Open Late on Friday

Public schools, Newark Academy have delayed opening.

Livingston Public Schools will have a delayed opening this morning, Friday, Jan. 21, due to snow-covered roads. Newark Academy will have a two-hour delayed opening. About four inches of snow fell overnight. According to the school district: The morning session of PRIDE and all before-school activities are cancelled. School busses follow the same 90-minute delay schedule for elementary and middle schools and 80-minute delay schedule for LHS. At Newark Academy, school will open at 10:10 a.m. Snow is expected to end by 7 a.m., according to the National Weather Service forecast for Livingston. Four inches of fresh powder fell overnight. Crews from the Department of Public Works are plowing roads, but many streets were snow covered when the …

Feeling Blue? Some Say Jan. 17 is the Worst Day of the Year

Monday may be the best day of the year for a bad mood.

To hear some psychologists tell it, Jan. 17 — the third Monday in January — is a good day for a bad mood. In short — because of a cocktail of personal and seasonal factors — this particular day is the time when a person typically reaches their emotional low point for the year. Indeed, January is a month when people do not have a lot of events, parties, or holidays to look forward to. And, by the third Monday, many people are struggling to cope not only with bleak weather, but also with the debts they amassed by spending too much over the holidays. It's also a time when people may be starting to feel like failures because they have broken their New Year's resolutions shortly after making them. A few years back, a British psychologist …

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Keep Kids Warm and Well-Protected This Winter

Here’s how helmets and bundling up can prevent children from injury and harm.

With the sledding hills covered in snow this weekend, parents should be mindful of keeping their kids safe and warm. Whether they’re having snow fights or simply playing outdoors, children should be dressed properly and take the right precautions when participating in winter activities. According to a release issued by Livingston’s Saint Barnabas Medical Center, it’s important that parents be aware of the possibility of hypothermia. This is especially true when a person's body temperature falls significantly below 98.6 degrees F. When this happens, it can be a life-threatening event. The younger the child, the more prone he or she is to hypothermia. Adults have developed physiological protective mechanisms, such as shivering or …

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