Lackawanna Coalition
advocating for rail passengers since 1979
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Donald Winship
NJ Transit customers have a quick and valuable connection in New York at Penn Station, both to Amtrak and the Long Island Rail… Continue Reading LIRR To Be Nearly Shut Down for Two Weekends
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At a news conference on Tuesday, September 24, Amtrak’s President, Joseph Boardman, unveiled the railroad’s vision for high-speed rail in the Boston-Washington Northeast… Continue Reading Amtrak Unveils 30-year High-Speed Rail Vision
Bob Ingle, writing in the Daily Record, Sunday, Sept. 26, says Governor Christie’s decision to put the trans-Hudson ARC rail tunnel on hold… Continue Reading “Christie wise to say whoa to rail tunnel, terminal” says Record columnist
New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund pays for highway projects and some capital projects for New Jersey Transit. By the end of next June,… Continue Reading Can the Transportation Trust Fund Be Saved?
New Jersey Transit again reduced service on the Newark Light Rail LIne between Penn Station and Broad Street Station on Labor Day week-end. … Continue Reading More Cuts in Newark Light Rail Service
New Jersey opinion leaders are joining the Lackawanna Coalition and other rider advocates in opposing the proposed deep-cavern terminal that would be built… Continue Reading Opposition to Deep-Cavern Terminal Grows
Despite the highest fare increases in the history of New Jersey Transit, implemented along with service cuts in May, LTK Engineering of Ambler,… Continue Reading Big Contractor Gets Big Bucks from NJT
From our September/October 2010 Railgram newsletter Regular riders on the Morris & Essex Lines are all too aware of the fare increases, along… Continue Reading Riders Get Fare Hikes, Consultants Get Big Bucks
From our September/October 2010 Railgram newsletter How the ARC Project Can Be “Right-sized” into the Moynihan/Penn Station First Alternative Can the currently planned… Continue Reading Use It or Lose It?
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