Commuters are often forced to choose between saving time or saving money when traveling into New York City.<\/p>\n
News 12 New Jersey reporters Amanda Eustice and Tom Krosnowski tested that choice with a morning commute from Bergen County into Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Tom took a bus from Glen Rock to the Port Authority Bus Terminal while Amanda took the train to Penn Station, with a transfer in Secaucus.<\/p>\n
Glen Rock Borough Hall was used as the starting point because the train tracks and bus stop are located close together.<\/p>\n
The bus was scheduled to depart at 7:09 a.m. and arrive in Midtown at 7:50 a.m.<\/p>\n
The bus arrived at 7:12 a.m., three minutes behind schedule. Early stops along the route allowed riders to find seats before the bus filled up.<\/p>\n
After several local stops, the bus entered the highway with traffic increasing near the Helix and through the Lincoln Tunnel.<\/p>\n
The bus arrived at the Port Authority at about 7:58 a.m., roughly 10 minutes later than scheduled.<\/p>\n
An extra 10 minutes during rush hour is not unusual, but timing matters when comparing commute options.<\/p>\n
Check in later this week to see when Amanda and the train arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commuters are often forced to choose between saving time or saving money when traveling into New York City.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[55065,9,24,63,134,136,135,31965],"class_list":["post-127492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-glen-rock","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-toll-of-commuting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}