In April 1982, the Rail Operations division of NJ Transit was formed and took the necessary steps to assume control of Conrail’s New Jersey commuter services. One year later it began operating a network of bus routes. New Jersey Transit Corporation was created in 1979 to oversee public transportation throughout the state. The New Jersey Department of Transportation had been established in 1966, subsidizing commuter rail service provided by the freight carriers, and funding equipment purchases and capital projects for both rail and bus lines through the Commuter Operating Authority.

NJ Transit Rail Operations began on January 1, 1983. The Northeast Rail Service Act, signed in August 1981, gave Conrail the authority to divest itself of its extensive and costly commuter operations by the end of 1982. NJ Transit Rail Operations is the subsidiary of New Jersey Transit Corporation charged with managing and operating commuter rail service in the Garden State.Ĭommuter service that had been provided by the Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, Jersey Central, Reading, and Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines was taken over by Conrail in 1976.

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