NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit will speed up efforts to replace damaged windows on its multilevel railcars, cutting the time to complete to three years instead of the previously projected six to eight years.
The plan to replace the windows in one third of the fleet over the next three years was announced Wednesday, March 5, at Newark Penn Station by CEO Kris Kolluri
The polycarbonate coating on the cars’ windows has been damaged by exposure to elements, leading to a cloudy appearance. The agency worked with the Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation to determine if the windows could be repaired, but that was determined not to be a viable option, so replacement is now underway.
“NJ Transit understands how the cloudy train windows on our multilevel rail cars impacts our customers’ travel experience,” Kolluri said in a press release “Accelerating the timeline for these window replacements reflects NJ Transit’s commitment to continually find ways to improve the customer experience along every aspect of the journey.”
Materials have been ordered that will allow windows to be replaced on all Multilevel II cars — built by Bombardier, now part of Alstom — by Dec. 31 of this year. Replacement of the rest of the fleet of more than 400 cars will be complete by April 2028. In all, more than 13,000 windows will be replaced.
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