NJT Delay Tracker — the daily cost of NJ Transit delays

Every day New Jersey Transit runs late, and every day New Jersey commuters and New York City employers absorb the cost. Here’s how much.

On Thursday, October 22, New Jersey Transit delays cost commuters and New York City employers more than:

$127,967

in productive time, based on 2,908 total hours of delays.

Since we started tracking in April 2026, New Jersey Transit delays have cost commuters and employers more than:

$61,427,292

in productive time spent waiting for missed, canceled, or delayed trains.

Every Tuesday through Saturday, we collect New Jersey Transit service alerts and estimate the economic cost of those delays, using a methodology that draws on NJT ridership and New Jersey economic data. These figures are estimates, not an official accounting — but the delays and their effects are very real, in the form of emails that go unsent while stalled in the Hudson tunnels, documents you can’t reach while on a crowded train, and daycare late fees that keep piling up.

This isn't about assigning blame. No one person let our system get this bad and no one person can fix it. It's about elevating our shared, bipartisan, economic interest in a functioning commuter rail service. (If you've come to this site looking for stats to blame a specific legislator or governor, you've come to the wrong place.)

Fixing New Jersey Transit will be expensive, but letting it slowly get worse, day by day, will cost more. Nothing will change until policymakers and business leaders realize that and choose to work together.