Dear friends of regional rail:
  
 The next monthly meeting of the Regional Rail Working Group sponsored
by:
 
 Empire State Passengers Association
 NJ Association of Railroad Passengers
 Committee for Better Transit
 Institute for Rational Urban Mobility
 
 will be:
  
 Wednesday, December 14, 2005  6-8pm
 Conference Room, NYPD Downtown Center
 104 Washington Street (just north of Rector Street),  Lower Manhattan.
 
 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:
 
 Agenda for the December 14, 2005 meeting
 
 1. Presentation by Herb Landow on Alternative C -- an innovative plan
for regional rail in Midtown Manhattan    
 2. Progress reports on other RRWG initiatives:
     -- Penn Station Metro-Hub through-running plan
     -- Rockaway cut-off
     -- streamlining LIRR East Side Access
     -- Access to the Region's Core - Alternative G (Penn Station-Grand
Central link)
     -- Regional Rail Freight options
3. Intercity Rail Passenger issues
4. Plans for future regional rail workshop at Municipal Art Society
 
 If you cannot make this meeting please send us you comments! 
 
 Save the dates for future meetings -- January 18, 2006, February 15,
2006 and March 15, 2006
 
 Hope to see you Wednesday!
 
 geo
 
 George Haikalis
 Chair, Regional  Working Group
 One Washington Square Village, Apt. 5D
 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212-475-3394   fax:212-475-5051  
             
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