Would you want to be the boss of New Jersey Transit? Kris Kolluri does. He will be the new boss running the commuter operation. Kolluri will join NJ Transit after heading the Gateway Tunnel Project.

News 12 asked riders if they had anything they would suggest for his "to-do" list.

“One time, I walked to the train - it said 143 minutes. Who’s waiting for that?" said one rider.

That rail rider echoed the sentiment of every rider News 12 spoke with in Hoboken - that reliability is No. 1 on the list, whether it was the bus, light rail or train.

Another suggestion for Kolluri is cleanliness on train cars.

“The light rails are not clean," said light rail rider Niyah Misey. “It’s either trash or like liquid, sticky liquid on the floors, like why?”

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Bus riders were especially vocal about app issues.

“Probably make the app more accurate," said one rider.

“The Bus 22 is horrible," said another. “Sometimes, you’ve got to hail them or they say they’re coming in seven minutes or a minute - then I have to wait 25 minutes all over again.”

“Common courtesy, just teach your team to just be courteous," said rider Trophyy Thompson.

Thompson, of Jersey City, said she had a bus driver close a door on her as she was approaching. Eventually, she caught up to that driver.

“Thankfully, there was a red light. So I hurry to the red light and tapped on the door and said 'Hey, you left me.' She says, 'Well, I had to make the light we all do that.’ I said, ‘What the?’ It’s us, not the light!’” Thompson says.

Kolluri will replace Kevin Corbett, who stepped down after seven years on the job. He will inherit riders who have experienced a 15% hike in fares and a series of memorable delays during a heatwave that became known among commuters as the “summer of hell.”

It’s not an enviable task to take on, but he will get some help from $300 million in grant money from the Federal Railroad Administration to upgrade signals, tracks and catenary wires on the Northeast Corridor line.