NJ Transit causing bottleneck chaos at Penn Station with tough new ticket policy – months before World Cup

Source: New York Post

This plan has gone off the rails. A new NJ Transit ticket policy has descended into madness at Penn Station, creating a chaotic rush hour bottleneck at the stairs to the platform where riders now have to present their tickets one-by-one, The Post has learned. A now-viral video posted to X Tuesday shows a maddening mosh pit of riders crowding a single NJ Transit worker scanning tickets at the entrance to a platform — instead of on the train — as part of a anti-fare evasion strategy launched Oct.