Dear friends of Regional Rail:
The next regular monthly meeting of the Regional Rail Working Group will
be:
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6-8pm (meeting will start promptly
at 6pm)
Conference Room, NYPD Downtown Center 104 Washington Street (just
north of Rector Street), Lower Manhattan.
Key item on the agenda again will be a discussion of plans for an
exhibit and program on Regional Rail to be held at the Municipal Art
Society's Urban Center, September 7, 2006 through November 8, 2006. The
Municipal Art Society is well respected civic organization that is concerned
with improving the civic realm in New York City. It led the battle to save Grand
Central Terminal and is championing efforts to rebuild Penn Station.
This is a major landmark event for the RRWG. MAS has given us the
main gallery to fill with the concepts and proposals that we have been
developing over the past five years.
Other agenda items for Wednesday's meeting will include a quick update on
each of our key initiatives:
1. Risk assessment of Deep Cavern Sterminal stations
2. Penn Station Metro-Hub
3. Rockaway Cut-off -- some interesting new developments!
4. Penn Station-Grand Central connection
5. Lower Manhattan Access
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 Penn Station
Metro-Hub plan sets the stage for doing this. Subsequent steps are access
to Lower Manhattan and the Penn Station-Grand Central link. 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
Plan to attend the next meeting on July 19, 2006.
George Haikalis
Chair, Regional Rail Working Group
One
Washington Square Village, Apt. 5D
New York, NY 10012 phone:
212-475-3394 fax:212-475-5051
