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.

Most recently, New Jersey Transit delays cost commuters and New York City employers more than:

$—

in productive time, based on — total hours of delays.

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

$—

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.

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.