Like any govt operation, I'm sure there is plenty of stupidity involved, so who knows. I can tell you NJ transit trains are a mess. It takes two hours to travel by train from where I live to NYC. I can be there by car in an hour, if it's not rush hour. One obvious problem is that there are just too many stops and having so many serves almost no purpose. The train stops at one small shore town after another, just a mile apart. These stops have very limited parking. So, who benefits? Only the few people who live so close they can walk. The rest of us would be better served by having large parking lots at a few key towns and eliminating those other stops. Once in my car, I'd rather drive
5 mins or 10 mins instead of 2 mins if the train trip winds up being 30 mins faster. Does that count as a way of making it go faster across the board?