Originally Posted by
ralfp
The gap between the 4:27pm (or so) and 5:05pm trains is really annoying. That may well be the longest gap between trains outside of the midnight-4am times.
The schedule is certainly peculiar. Then the fact that there are two agencies (Amtrak and NJ transit) providing service, with Amtrak at a substantially higher cost, and you have to decide which to buy up front.
In a more developed country, it would be a coordinated service without such gaps, with a uniform ticket and price, which would be valid on any of the operators' trains. But then again, this is America, we got a ways to go to catch up to the rest of the world in these things.