Lackawanna Coalition

advocating for rail passengers since 1979

Month: September 2010

  • LIRR To Be Nearly Shut Down for Two Weekends

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    Donald Winship

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    NJ Transit customers have a quick and valuable connection in New York at Penn Station, both to Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR).  However, it won’t be so easy on two weekends in October and November: the LIRR has announced the final phase of repairs to the signaling system at their busy Jamaica…

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  • Amtrak Unveils 30-year High-Speed Rail Vision

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    Donald Winship

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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 Corridor.  The plan envisions full service by 2040, but says some service could begin as early as 2015.  The visionary plan would cut travel time between New York and Washington to 96…

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  • “Christie wise to say whoa to rail tunnel, terminal” says Record columnist

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    Donald Winship

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    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 is a wise move.  Ingle calls the plan “the rail line from Monstrosity by the Turnpike” (his term for the failed Xanadu complex) to Macy’s basement.  It would be the “third Hudson…

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  • Can the Transportation Trust Fund Be Saved?

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    Donald Winship

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    New Jersey’s Transportation Trust Fund pays for highway projects and some capital projects for New Jersey Transit.  By the end of next June, the TTF will run out of mony.  Assemblyman Joseph Cryan has proposed raising the user fee on motor fuels (it is not a tax) by 8¢ per year for the next 3…

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  • More Cuts in Newark Light Rail Service

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    Donald Winship

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    New Jersey Transit again reduced service on the Newark Light Rail LIne between Penn Station and Broad Street Station on Labor Day week-end.  Weekday service outside of peak hours now runs only every 30 minutes, increasing waiting times for transfer between Morris & Essex and Montclair-Boonton Line trains and the light rail to Penn Station. …

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  • Opposition to Deep-Cavern Terminal Grows

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    Donald Winship

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    New Jersey opinion leaders are joining the Lackawanna Coalition and other rider advocates in opposing the proposed deep-cavern terminal that would be built 20 stories below Manhattan’s 34th Street as part of the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) Project.  Columnists Paul Mulshine of the Star-Ledger and Bob Ingle of the Asbury Park Press have written in opposition to…

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  • Big Contractor Gets Big Bucks from NJT

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    Donald Winship

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    Despite the highest fare increases in the history of New Jersey Transit, implemented along with service cuts in May, LTK Engineering of Ambler, Penn. has been awarded a contract that would pay between $92,000 and $96,000 to inspect each of 100 new multi-level railcars that NJT is buying.  There are already 329 similar cars on…

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  • Riders Get Fare Hikes, Consultants Get Big Bucks

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    Donald Winship

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    From our September/October 2010 Railgram newsletter  Regular riders on the Morris & Essex Lines are all too aware of the fare increases, along with service reductions, that New Jersey Transit implemented this past spring.  Yet this belt-tightening doesn’t go across the board; the most dramatic illustration is NJT’s insistence on building a new “deep cavern” terminal in…

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  • Use It or Lose It?

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    Donald Winship

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    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 Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) project, which would build a dead-end deep-cavern terminal 20 stories (181’) beneath 34th Street in Manhattan, be right-sized into rail advocates’ Moynihan/Penn Station First alternative, which…

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