Lackawanna Coalition

advocating for rail passengers since 1979

  • Christie Reported Ready to Kill ARC

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    Donald Winship

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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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  • Legislature Reverses Course; Construction Freeze to End

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    Donald Winship

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    On Monday, October 4, as Gov. Christie’s transportation project freeze went into effect, the NJ legislature’s Joint Budget Operating Committee held an emergency meeting on the crisis, and reversed course, voting reportedly 4–1 to authorize the bond issue.  Democrats had held that such a bond issue requires voters’ approval; the Christie administration said it was…

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  • WNYC Covers Construction Freeze

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    Donald Winship

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    On Monday, October 4, as Gov. Christie’s transportation project freeze goes into effect and the  NJ legislature is set to hold emergency meetings on the crisis, WNYC’s Bob Hennelly reported on the situation.  He said that Democratic legislators’ concerns focus on the Governor’s $1.25 billion bond program to keep the projects going without approval from…

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  • Star-Ledger Columnist Pronounces ARC Dead

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    Donald Winship

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    Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine, an outspoken opponent of New Jersey Transit’s proposed deep-cavern terminal for the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) Project has pronounced the project dead, at least as NJT conceives it.  In a column appearing in the edition for Sunday, October 3d, Mulshine said: “The ARC is dead.  Long live the ARC.”  He…

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  • Transportation Construction Gridlock Threatened

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    Donald Winship

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    NJ Governor Chris Christie’s 30-day moratorium on the ARC trans-Hudson rail tunnel has led to a “high-stakes game of political chicken”, which now threatens to stop about 100 road and rail construction projects around the state, according to a front-page article in the Star-Ledger on Saturday, October 2.  The Governor halted the ARC project pending…

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  • Coalition Member Presents Coalition Position on NJN-TV

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    Donald Winship

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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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  • 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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