Yeah i had the yards updated. I finally got the TGID's from Radio Repair on Monday. I will put them on the wiki and submit them tomorrow.
I understand that it’s a state authority with a separate revenue stream but it’s still government just like NJTransit is still government. Whether revenue is from users or taxpayers that’s just semantics. I’m just saying that it’s a triplication of government spending/services to operate 3 independent trunked systems with overlapping footprints with no interoperability amongst them. Conceivably you could have all 3 with sites on one tower (there probably are) and if that’s a privately owned tower then that’s 3 lease payments from 3 governments entities. Just seems very typically a NJ thing to do. Kind of like how my property taxes goto pay for 3 separate school districts haha. Just MHO about government excess. Moving on….
I get it, it definitely feels like a NJ thing to do haha but there are other factors at play as well based on the end users.
True...NJCIS is not the one size fits all kinda system that all agencies in the state can use. At the time it was already reaching capacity for the # of sites and subs. Now that they have expanded and have 2 zones instead of one, they can finally get things sorted out with all their users and sites. No way NJICS could handle over 4,000 NJT radios at the time along with the data requirements.
The tolls are only a small part of the Income to the TPA. There are a lot of grants involved.
