Category: Expansion Projects
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WNYC reported (Tuesday, 3 p.m.). on authority of 3 sources connected to high places in the Christie administration. that the Governor will announce later this week that the ARC tunnel project will be suspended and funding “repurposed” to highway projects. The Governor, on the campaign trail in Chicago for GOP senatorial candidate Bill Brady, said…
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Joseph M. Clift, chair of the Technical Committee of the Lackawanna Coalition, appeared on New Jersey Network on Sunday, September 26th, to present the position of the rider advocacy alliance concerning the ARC Project. Clift presented the Moynihan/Penn Station First alternative and its benefits to New Jersey’s rail riders, and concluded by inviting Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) to take the…
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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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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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The Lackawanna Coalition has endorsed the concept of the Moynihan Station planned for the Farley Post Office building west of Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, across the street from the existing Penn Station, but has not endorsed the plan in its current form. We call for all tracks to be extended to accommodate trains of any…
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The plan to extend the existing Penn Station into the historic Farley Post Office Building on the west side of Eighth Avenue received a boost as the Federal Government gave the project a grant of $83.3 million under the TIGER (Transportation Improvements Generating Economic Recovery) Program. New York State and Amtrak officials hailed the move,…
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Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin questioned the cost-effectiveness of the NJT proposal to build a deep-cavern terminal under 34th Street in Manhattan rather than bring new tunnels and tracks to the East Side. In his column published on Monday, December 21st, Doblin said, “The reality is that putting more people in the same part…
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The Board of Directors of New Jersey Transit approved $1.15 Billion in contracts for the “ARC” (Access to the Region’s Core, also known as Mass Transit Tunnel) and Portal Bridge Projects on December 9th, the last Board meeting before incumbent Governor Jon Corzine leaves office. The contracts call for construction under Manhattan to build a…
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The Lackawanna Coalition supports additional tunnel capacity to Manhattan, but opposes the proposed “deep cavern” terminal that is planned to accompany the proposed additional tunnels. We continue to question the affordability of the deep-cavern terminal portion of the project, and we object to the planned eviction of Morris & Essex and Montclair-Boonton Line riders from…
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