“These things are not just transportation projects, they really are economic development projects they bring in industry and jobs,” Malski said. Malski, however, contends that because of the potential economic development the rail service could spur, there will be plenty of interest to back the project. “I doubt there will be much money left over for anything else.”įor subscribers: We gathered 10 years of data on pedestrian fatalities in North Jersey. Together, they’d really have to get off the dime how much money they would have to put into this - especially since they want to put so much into Gateway,” Alan said, referring to the almost $12 billion plan to rehabilitate two rail runnels going into New York Penn Station and adding two new ones. “It’s really up to Pennsylvania and up to NJ Transit. "Over the next several weeks, we plan to meet with many of these groups to design the joint analysis to best meet the needs of all parties.”Īlan, of the Lackawanna Coalition, said he remains skeptical about whether the corridor extension will ever happen. "Amtrak has already undertaken some analysis of this route, and we look forward to more detailed study in cooperation with PNRRA, state and local officials, host railroads, and other stakeholders," said Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams. The Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority, a public organization that owns about 100 miles of the tracks needed for the Scranton project, put down $400,000 last month to study with Amtrak whether the route is worth doing and what kind of ridership they could expect. More: Third lawsuit in three months filed against NJ Transit as sixth woman alleges sex assault It's on us to be able to justify from an economic standpoint that the routes that are being proposed are worth doing," Coscia said in a recent interview with The Record and the USA TODAY Network New Jersey. “In some markets, it's a stronger case than it is in others.
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