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  • Report from the Chair—Sept./Oct. 2024

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    This summer has been a challenging one at NJ Transit, with many rail delays, which the agency largely blamed on Amtrak. In fact, the agency has now started reporting 2 sets of delay statistics: those with an Amtrak component, and those without. As trains become stuck in tunnels, we think about the often-raised concern regarding…

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  • PATH Overnight Service to Continue

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    David Peter Alan

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    WNYC Radio reports that John Degnan, Chair of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has announced that PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) trains will continue to operate at overnight hours, at least for the foreseeable future. A report released by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had recommended…

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  • Tunnel Cancellation, “Bridgegate” Form Pattern: Report

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    John Bobsin

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    An extensive report on radio station WNYC (January 17) by Andrea Bernstein explores a number of events involving Port Authority budgets instigated by the New Jersey appointees on the Port Authority, notably Bill Baroni and David Wildstein. The report says that the decision by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to kill the ARC trans-Hudson rail tunnel several years…

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  • Christie’s Budget Strategies Questioned

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    John Bobsin

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    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie likes to portray himself as a fiscal conservative, but reporting by Kate Zernike in The New York Times (Oct. 30) questions this assessment, including Christie’s record on transportation issues.  In his election 4 years ago, Christie attacked his opponent, incumbent Jon Corzine, for using fiscal gimmicks to balance the budget.…

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  • Christie’s Sandy Remarks Questioned

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    John Bobsin

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    NJT’s massive loss in Hurricane Sandy was caused by a bad decision by a low-level official, not by reliance on poor storm forecasts.  So said NJ Gov. Chris Christie, as reported by Karen Rouse in The Record newspaper (Oct. 3), after Christie met with The Record’s board that day.  The low-level employee “ditched” a plan…

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  • PATH to EWR? Maybe.

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    John Bobsin

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    NJ’s Gov. Christie might require PATH service to Newark Liberty Airport—but only if United Airlines agrees to beef up service at Atlantic City.  The airline has balked, according to reporting by Ted Mann in the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 30).  If the long-contemplated PATH extension were to be built, it would likely go only to the Newark…

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  • Media Questions NJT Sandy Response Anew

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    John Bobsin

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    A month-long investigation by New York public radio station WNYC, New Jersey Public Radio, and The (Bergen) Record newspaper has resulted in extensive reporting questioning NJ Transit’s response to Hurricane Sandy, which struck the region on October 29, 2012.  The report contrasts the extensive damage suffered by NJT in comparison with the generally minor damage…

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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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  • Report Disputes Christie’s Basis for Halting Tunnel

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    John Bobsin

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    This article was published in the New York Times. It is quoted here as a matter of interest, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Lackawanna Coalition. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey exaggerated when he declared that unforeseen costs to the state were forcing him to cancel the new train tunnel planned…

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  • New York Studies Extending No. 7 Subway to Secaucus

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    Donald Winship

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    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 the No. 7 subway line under the Hudson to connect with NJ Transit at Secaucus.  This would expand the regional transportation system and alleviate much of the overcrowding expected on NJT trains…

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