The conductors and assistant conductors were needed for long hours each day at the stations to assist passengers, Snyder said. Since the line was suspended, conductors and assistants have continued to work their normal shifts and hours at the Atlantic City Line’s stops, said Nancy Snyder, a NJ Transit spokesperson, even as the route’s engineers were reassigned to work on trains in the northern part of the state. Conductors - responsible for patrolling the trains and performing tasks like collecting tickets - consider overtime as built in to their salaries. Before the line’s suspension, it served fewer than 2,000 people a day and was one of NJ Transit’s least-busy lines.Įmployee shifts on train lines are typically longer than eight hours. A congressional mandate required PTC, which can automatically control the speed of a train to prevent accidents, throughout New Jersey’s rail system, but the Atlantic City Line was one of the few where service was halted during the installation.
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The transit agency shut down the 60-mile route last year during its rush to install a train safety system, Positive Train Control, to meet an end-of-2018 federal deadline. “Clearly you don’t need people to work overtime to tell at best a couple people they have to get on the bus,” said Nick Pittman, who has been a vocal critic of NJ Transit’s handling of the Atlantic City Line’s suspension. >READ MORE: Atlantic City Rail Line to restart two weeks early with enhanced service One rail advocate, though, called it money wasted. NJ Transit has said the workers were needed to assist passengers unfamiliar with the bus service that replaced trains during the suspension. Some staffers earned less than $1,000 in overtime in a month. Typically the largest single-month overtime payment per conductor or assistant conductor was in the $3,000 range, though one conductor earned $5,044 in January. The average overtime pay per staffer in December was $1,957, roughly equivalent to the amount when trains were running in December 2017. Overtime pay from the months after January was not available. In the process, conductors and assistant conductors racked up $164,138 in overtime from September to January, according to NJ Transit records. The Atlantic City Line is scheduled to resume service on Sunday. They worked long hours at stations along the rail line’s route as ambassadors to passengers, the transit agency said. The agency confirmed that the line’s 18 conductors and assistant conductors were consistently assigned to the Philadelphia-Atlantic City service from September until this month. Conductors on the Atlantic City Rail Line have continued earning tens of thousands of dollars in overtime since the line was temporarily closed in September despite never being reassigned to other NJ Transit routes, documents show.
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