Can you see thousands of Donna Reeds riding New Jersey Transit into Newark to meet the girls at Schrafts'. Well, wake up. If that world ever existed, it doesn't any more. Here's a fundamental fact, new jobs are in the suburbs, unemployed workers are in the cities - unable to get to them. This is not the fault of the movers and shakers at New Jersey Transit.
Mass transit needs mass to work.
That's why the system was, and still is, able to move masses of Suburban Dads into and out of the cities. That's also why New Jersey Transit is unable to move scattered urban workers to scattered work sites along our complex highway system. Mass transit simply isn't relevant to new businesses. Drive along the Parkway and notice hundreds of buildings with thousands of parking spots, each chock full. To work in New Jersey, you need to access the suburbs.