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Hoboken mayor slams Port Authority for upping PATH train wait times

Passengers wait for the PATH train at Hoboken Terminal on May 19, 2015. (Kathryn Brenzel | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

By Kathryn Brenzel | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 19, 2015 at 2:39 PM, updated May 19, 2015 at 8:36 PM

HOBOKEN—Some passengers at Hoboken Terminal will have to wait a little longer to catch a PATH train to New York, and they can blame overcrowding in Jersey City for it, Port Authority officials told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday.

Passengers headed to 33rd Street from Hoboken now must wait seven minutes between trains instead of six, since Port Authority extended wait times in late April, said spokesman Steve Coleman. The changes only apply from 7:35 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., and were implemented in order to decrease wait times at Jersey City stations, which have been experiencing "significant platform crowding issues" due to "high growth and ridership," he said.

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