https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/nyregion/new-jersey-transit-commute.html No Scrum for Seats. No Quiet-Car Brawls. Is This Really My Commute? The pandemic has made New Jersey Transit unrecognizable. Credit... Listen to This Article . The eastbound train shuddered to a stop at the Maplewood station like a dog shaking off rain. In another time, dozens of the commute-hardened would have begun to board, heads down, shoulders angled, minds as focused on a particular seat as that of a rightful heir to a throne. But on this early-spring, late-pandemic morning in New Jersey, only a scattered few climbed aboard, every one of us masked. All that grounded the moment in normality was the lateness of the train.