No, service has been back at pre-COVID levels for a while now.

Both Meadowlands Pkwy and Seaview Drive are at least 4 wides wide and they are implementing dedicated bus lanes for the World Cup with TSP. The likelihood of getting stuck in traffic is low because 1. there is transit priority and 2. those local roads aren’t usually heavily during game days IIRC.

The new routing is more direct than the original plan so journey times will be quicker as well.

It’s still going to have transit priority (i.e bus lanes, TSP, etc). Nothing from the original plan was changed about the level of transit priority over general traffic. It’s just a different route. (2/2)

To reiterate, they weren’t even going to use the old Boonton line ROW in the original plan, they were going to use NJ Route 7 to the Turnpike. It’s literally the same concept that they are doing now, but they just picked another route (Lightly used local roads to NJ Route 3). (1/2)

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There aren’t really any drawbacks to this compared to the busway using Route 7/Turnpike because it’s literally the same concept. If you look at the original FIFA plan, they aren’t using the old Boonton line ROW either. (2/2)

It’s going to have dedicated bus lanes, TSP, and possible physical separation (there was an article a few months ago stated that NJ Transit/NJ DOT were interested in implementing jersey barriers for the bus lanes). So more of a glorified BRT than anything. (1/2)

Wikipedia has a full list here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of.... Also note that contracts don’t have to be approved in consecutive order. For instance, the R268 contract was approved before the R262 contract. (4/4)

…(because they used them all already), so the MTA had to make a new contract, the R268 contract, to purchase more cars. Note that also R-type contracts are not all subway car orders. They can anything from flatbeds, cranes, work locomotives, etc. (3/4)

…ordered from the R211 contract etc. The reason the R268 subway cars have a different number than the R211 subway cars even though they are practically the same model is because they were ordered under a different contract. The existing R211 contract didn’t have more options to buy more cars… (2/4)

It’s just a contract numbering thing. All NYC Subway rolling stock post-1940 subway unification are labeled by their contract number with the prefix “R”, something started by the IND. For example, the R160A/B subway cars were ordered from the R160 contract, the R211A/S/T subway cars are… (1/4)