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… Continue Reading “Gateway” Project Gains Traction
Coalition Calls for Affordable Trans-Hudson Project, As Feds Demand “ARC” Money Back from NJT Just as the Lackawanna Coalition made the case in… Continue Reading Coalition Calls for Affordable Trans-Hudson Project
The Lackawanna Coalition has passed a resolution in support of building “An Affordable ARC Project Now—Not Later”. The organization calls on the state… Continue Reading Coalition Endorses Proposal for “Affordable ARC Now—Not Later”
The NJT Board of Directors has approved the hiring of the Washington lobbying and law firm of Patton Boggs, LLC, to defend the… Continue Reading Coalition Objects to Potentially High Legal Bill for NJT
According to the New York Times, since the demise of the ARC tunnel project, New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s administration has been studying extending… Continue Reading New York Studies Extending No. 7 Subway to Secaucus
Star-Ledger journalist Tom Moran, in an interview on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC on November 15, said that politics factored in to… Continue Reading ARC Decision Tied to Politics, Says Journalist
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has sent a bill to New Jersey Transit for $271 million for money advanced to the agency for… Continue Reading FTA Sends Bill to NJT
Advocates for the Moynihan/Penn Station First alternative to the “deep-cavern” ARC project plan look forward to the opportunity to work with the Christie… Continue Reading Lackawanna Coalition Statement on ARC Cancellation
WNYC reported at noon Wednesday that N.J. Gov. Christie has reaffirmed his decision to cancel the ARC tunnel. This follows a 2-week period… Continue Reading Christie Cancels Tunnel
Partisan politics appears to be heating up over the issue of the ARC Project with New Jersey Transit’s proposed deep-cavern terminal under 34th… Continue Reading Columnist Criticizes Lautenberg for Continuing to Defend Deep-Cavern Proposal