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  • NJ Transitway: Our Oct. 10 Board Comments

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    Sally Jane Gellert

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    The last item on the agenda this evening is a contract for the Transitway at Secaucucs.  What is unusual about this contract-approval request is that there is no dollar amount with it, merely “amount discussed in executive session”.   Since we have been attending board meetings, this is the first time that there has not been…

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  • Multilevel cars to get their trucks overhauled, but what about the windows?

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    David Peter Alan

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    NJ Transit approved a contract on Thursday, October 10 to overhaul the trucks on 100 Multilevel II cars, which were ordered in 2010 and built by Bombardier in 2012–13. The overhaul is slated to cost almost $26 million, to be funded by the Transportation Trust Fund.  It will be performed by Alstom, which purchased Bombardier…

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  • Big Contractor Gets Big Bucks from NJT

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    Donald Winship

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    Despite the highest fare increases in the history of New Jersey Transit, implemented along with service cuts in May, LTK Engineering of Ambler, Penn. has been awarded a contract that would pay between $92,000 and $96,000 to inspect each of 100 new multi-level railcars that NJT is buying.  There are already 329 similar cars on…

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