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The population is exploding here in Hudson County PATH can only go so far as the tunnels allow. Perhaps when they dig one tunnel they should dig another for an additional PATH train. You can only fit so much in a space. Keep building J.C. !

PATH is much more crowded than it was 3 years ago and that was much more crowded than 3 years before that.

PATH has added NOTHING to it's capacity as it's ridership increased. In fact, just the opposite, they CURTAILED service on weekends.

How many times have you heard yourself say "If we get on at 33rd Street there's a CHANCE of getting a seat?"

They promised station lengthening 2 fare increases ago (for a couple $billion)...they delivered not one INCH!

For whatever reason the Path doesn't seem to be any more crowded now than it did 3 years ago when I started riding daily. I tend to leave by 7:30am so maybe that helps.

Have you ever seen them actually "working" on it. % guys watch while one guy kinda works. Its a joke.

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...a few months after the second stairwell at grove St. comes online (you'd think it was the stairway in an Apple store they were building, each one takes so long...)

Don't worry; the Port Authority will make the needed adjustments to the schedule by sometime 2026.

If you are feeling more cramped on the PATH in recent months it is real and not perception.

NYT article: "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has recorded a similar decline in travel across its bridges and tunnels since early March, when it raised tolls. The greatest decline was in April, when traffic fell by 4.2 percent. (The transportation authority also increased tolls in March, but by a much smaller amount.)

At the same time, subway, bus and commuter rail ridership has increased.

Weekday subway ridership was up 6.5 percent in April, compared with the same month a year ago. April ridership increased 5.5 percent on the Long Island Rail Road, 4.3 percent on the Metro-North Railroad and almost 9 percent on PATH trains between Manhattan and New Jersey. Use of the subways and rail lines also increased in May, compared with the previous year, but in most cases by smaller amounts. New Jersey Transit ridership, including bus, commuter rail and light rail, was up about 4.6 percent in April and May combined".

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/nyr ... q=PATH&st=nyt&oref=slogin

So PATH ridership has increased by a greater percentage than any of the other public transportation systems in the region. Combine increased number of people in these downtown highrises and the number that should be coming online soon and the real posibility that energy may become even more expensive we may soon need:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9nnXw ... 19&forum=6&post_id=156902