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Dear friends of Regional Rail:
The next meeting of the Regional Rail Working Group (RRWG) will be held on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 6-8pm (meeting will start promptly at 6pm) Conference Room, NYPD Downtown Center 104 Washington Street (just north of Rector Street), Lower Manhattan. I would also urge you to attend the next Auto-Free New York
meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, January 26, 2009, 6-8pm, at the same
location. The subject will be:
"Reducing roadway congestion to JFK Airport: A one-seat rail
service on the disused LIRR Rockaway Cut-Off in Central Queens"
An informal discussion led by Robert Kozma, retired public transit
operations specialist
At the RRWG meeting discussion will
continue on efforts to advance ARC Penn Station First --
a plan for connecting the new Hudson River passenger rail tunnels directly into
existing tracks and platforms at Moynihan/Penn Station. The current NJ Transit
plan to connect the new tunnels into a deep cavern dead end terminal station 175
feet below 34th Street is seriously flawed, and should be
modified.
Time permitting, there will be progress reports on other RRWG
initiatives:
1. moving forward on the Penn Station Metro-Hub plan
2. Upper Level Loop Alternative for LIRR East Side Access 3. Lower Manhattan Access 4. Light Rail in the Lincoln Tunnel 5. Regional Rail Freight and Intercity Rail Passenger issues The purpose of the working group is to develop and advance plans for converting the region's commuter rail lines into a regional rail system, with fast, frequent service and affordable, integrated fares. The group also considers changes to rapid transit and light rail transit that are "regional" in scale. Regional Rail issues are discussed on our website: www.rrwg.org The Working Group includes: Empire State Passengers Association NJ Association of Railroad Passengers Lackawanna Coalition Five Towns Rural Transit, Inc. Committee for Better Transit Institute for Rational Urban Mobility Sane Aviation for Everyone, Inc. (SAFE) (our newest participant) See you on January 26, 2010 and January 27,
2010
geo George Haikalis Chair, Regional Rail Working Group One Washington Square Village, Suite 5D New York, NY 10012 phone: 212-475-3394 geo@irum.org www.irum.org www.auto-free.org www.vision42.org www.rrwg.org |
