Lackawanna Coalition

advocating for rail passengers since 1979

  • NJT Cuts Bus Service; Coalition Objects

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    Donald Winship

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    New Jersey Transit eliminated 4 bus lines running in Newark and Bloomfield, while cutting service on other lines in the area.  The cuts will take effect on September 1st.  The agency decided to save one of the routes slated for elimination; the #78, which provides service between Penn Station and Broad Street Station in Newark and Secaucus, primarily during peak commuting…

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  • NJT Announces New Bicycle Policy

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    Donald Winship

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    Cyclists Win Some and Lose Some; Public Not Consulted New Jersey Transit implemented new policies regarding bringing bicycles onto trains on July 1st.  The victory for bike riders was that bikes can now be brought onto trains at all stations, not only stations with high-level platforms. The loss for bike riders is that cyclists from…

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  • Livingston Plans New Feeder Service to M&E

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    John Bobsin

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    The town of Livingston, which has no direct rail service, plans to institute a “jitney” feeder service from the Livingston Mall to the South Orange station of NJ Transit”s Morris and Essex Lines; the new service is expected to start in September.  There will be 2 services each hour during weekday peak periods: 6–10 a.m.…

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  • Metro-North Plans Off-Peak Service Increase

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    John Bobsin

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    New York’s Metro-North Railroad, which provides commuter services to northern suburbs in New York and Connecticut, plans a substantial increase in rail service in response to increasing customer demand.  The railroad plans to add 230 trains per week, the largest increase in service since the company took over the commuter services in 1982, according to…

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  • NJ Transit to Consider Bringing Back Off-Peak Discounts

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    Donald Winship

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    This article is from the Star-Ledger, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Lackawanna Coalition NJ Transit officials are reconsidering an unpopular 2-year-old decision that ended discounts for rail passengers who ride during weekends and other off-peak hours. Coupled with an average fare hike of 22% in May 2010, off-peak riders who lost…

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  • No Fare Hike in NJ Transit Budget

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    Donald Winship

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    This article, formerly found at the link below, is from the Daily Record, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Lackawanna Coalition NJ Transit’s new operating budget comes without a fare increase and the lowest rate of growth in 15 years, but transit advocates said the agency could spend more to fix nagging…

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  • Toll Collection: Not Free

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    John Bobsin

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    Transit users pay fares.  Highway users (sometimes) pay tolls.  Transit users have often wondered how much of the fares they pay go to the fare-collection system.  For highway tolls, now we have some idea of how much of the toll goes not to highway maintenance or construction, but simply to collect the toll itself. The…

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  • No-Transit Tappan Zee Controversy Continues

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    John Bobsin

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    The Tappan Zee Bridge has carried the New York Thruway across the Hudson River for 57 years.  Designed for 100,000 vehicles per day, it now carries 138,000, has no breakdown lanes, and fails to meet earthquake standards.  Everybody agrees that it’s obsolete, and there are plans afoot to build a new bridge or two, with…

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  • FRA Proposes Additional Exclusions to Environmental Procedures

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    Donald Winship

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    This short article is from Railroad Track and Structures. It does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Lackawanna Coalition. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) proposed an addition of 7 new Categorical Exclusions (CE) to its environmental procedures that will help expedite project delivery across the country. The proposed CEs, which were developed in coordination…

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  • “Gateway” Project Gains Traction

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    John Bobsin

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    Increasingly, transportation experts and politicians are getting behind a new trans-Hudson rail tunnel plan, the so-called Gateway project, according to Steve Strunsky, reporting in the Star-Ledger (June 14). The catchier “Gateway” name isn’t the only advantage over the now-defunct Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) project, derided as “the stop in Macy’s basement”.  Like ARC,…

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