The NJT 10 Year Plan came out three weeks ago, but this piece from today points out the fact that it contains no money for going beyond Andover.
PA: No new money for NYC passenger train in New Jersey plan
The proposed Scranton to Hoboken, New Jersey, passenger train may have hit the end of the line. Or just stalled for years of more waiting.
By Borys Krawczeniuk
Source The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. (TNS)
Jun 30th, 2020
Jun. 29--The proposed Scranton to Hoboken, New Jersey, passenger train may have hit the end of the line.
Or just stalled for years of more waiting.
New Jersey Transit, which would operate the train, recently issued a 10-year transportation plan that has no new dollars for extending service on the Lackawanna Cutoff beyond Andover, New Jersey. The agency's plan calls for spending $1.845 billion on three other service expansion projects, but not the remaining 21 miles on the cutoff between Andover and the Delaware Water Gap.
"There are no plans at this point to extend the project beyond Andover," New Jersey Transit spokeswoman Lisa Torbic said in an email.
Larry Malski, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority, and other officials sloughed off the new plan. They continue to seek federal money for the project.
"We need the next 21 miles, and that's what we're going after in the federal appropriation," Malski said. "Once the 21 miles are there, we're in Pennsylvania. We control our destiny."
Read the rest at
https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/new ... ersey-plan