HOBOKEN, N.J. — The travelers wait by the hundreds here, their mornings a blur of overbooked buses, unfamiliar ferries and lines. Interminable lines.

Some have taken to walking, trudging the mile to neighboring Jersey City, a community with a similar riverside perch but far better luck with transit recently. Others swallow the expense of a daily taxi ride across the Hudson River.

But for nearly all who have strained to establish a new routine, resetting their alarms for an earlier, groggier morning, the stifled commute from Hoboken to New York City remains uniquely vexing.

“It’s right there,” said Sarah Block, 26, as she waited for a New York Waterway ferry to Lower Manhattan last week.