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New Solution found for Hudson River Crossing
Posted by henry6 on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:02 AM

Has the NJT's PR department found a solution to the ARC program and its oppostion?

 

From the WCBS880.com website

NJ Transit Service Resumes; Expect Delays

NEW YORK (AP) -- UPDATE: Penny Basset-Hackett of NJ Transit says service is resuming, but expect up to an hour of delays.

A brush fire in northern New Jersey is snarling rail service between Manhattan and northern New Jersey.

NJ Transit spokesman Joe Dee says service has been suspended along the Northeast Corridor, New Jersey Coast and Midtown Direct rail lines. The fire is also delaying six Amtrak trains that need to travel through Lincoln Tunnel to Manhattan's Penn Station.

Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole says train traffic along the Amtrak railroad tracks in the town of North Bergen was suspended at 2:11 p.m. due to the fire, which spread to both sides of the rail bed.

Firefighters are attempting to control the blaze.

Midtown Direct service is being diverted into Hoboken Terminal. NJ TRANSIT says tickets will be honored on PATH at Hoboken and Newark Penn Station.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:08 AM

henry6

From the WCBS880.com website

-- snip --

NJ Transit spokesman Joe Dee says service has been suspended along the Northeast Corridor, New Jersey Coast and Midtown Direct rail lines. The fire is also delaying six Amtrak trains that need to travel through Lincoln Tunnel to Manhattan's Penn Station.

Ah, yes; our technologically challenged media at work!  I'll bet that Joe Dee simply said, "The Tunnel," and that Lincoln was added by the genius who wrote the WCBS news clip.

I've traversed the Lincoln Tunnel several times, but always in a car or bus, never aboard a train.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:01 PM

henry6
travel through Lincoln Tunnel to Manhattan's Penn Station.

Boy some one sure improved clearances in the tunnel! Who installed the CAT? Oh yeah the news writer!

 

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Posted by henry6 on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:55 PM

Yeah...now you can ride a train right to the bus station!

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Posted by Maglev on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:35 PM

Well, with 747's serving the Statue of Liberty, who knows what's next?

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Posted by corsair7 on Friday, May 1, 2009 11:16 AM

Maglev

Well, with 747's serving the Statue of Liberty, who knows what's next?

There are two problems there that the geniuses in charge obviously haven't figured:

1. where do the 747s land without terrorisng the inhabitants of the World Trade Center area?

and

2. They could have the visitors to the Statue of Liberty parachute from the planes but how do the get back aboard after they've visited the site?

Laugh

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Posted by carnej1 on Friday, May 1, 2009 5:05 PM

corsair7

Maglev

Well, with 747's serving the Statue of Liberty, who knows what's next?

There are two problems there that the geniuses in charge obviously haven't figured:

1. where do the 747s land without terrorisng the inhabitants of the World Trade Center area?

and

2. They could have the visitors to the Statue of Liberty parachute from the planes but how do the get back aboard after they've visited the site?

Laugh

As far as problem 2 goes, here is a possible solution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system

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Posted by aegrotatio on Saturday, May 2, 2009 12:26 AM

 Okay, I nominate this as Dumbest Trains.com Thread Ever, and I include my own dumb threads!!

 

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Posted by corsair7 on Sunday, May 3, 2009 9:31 AM

aegrotatio

 Okay, I nominate this as Dumbest Trains.com Thread Ever, and I include my own dumb threads!!

 

It may be dumb but given the politicians in the various capitols of the country, they just might think it's briliant. Mischief

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Posted by henry6 on Sunday, May 3, 2009 11:04 AM

corsair7

aegrotatio

 Okay, I nominate this as Dumbest Trains.com Thread Ever, and I include my own dumb threads!!

 

It may be dumb but given the politicians in the various capitols of the country, they just might think it's briliant. Mischief

Irv

 

To bolster your thought, Corsair7, there are those in North Jersey who want to consider building a monorail system in the center median of Route 80 as the easiest and best way to handle Route 80 traffic from the Poconos!

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