commuter rail preps for "sandy" and future storms

[daveklepper]

which can be a disaster if needed experience is lost

[sandyhookken]

Just wondering if Ms. Hakim is doing the Governor's dirty work with her management purge, or if she is really trying to change the culture? Time will tell.

[blue streak 1]

Well the beat goes on.

NJ Transit wants to build a standby electric generating station near MMNC on property once allocated to the ARC. 

1.   Couple of governments want to prevent that and use property development to get more taxes.

2.   Sounds like a good idea for standby electric

3.  Area is 200+ acres

4.  What kind of standby power will be produced.

5.  No matter the size of the facility it must be placed above any possible flood and further must have provisions that it can be jacked higher if future developments show possible higher floods.

LINK

 

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2014/03/nj_transit_proposal_to_build_s.html#incart_river_default>

 

 

[Firelock76]

sandyhookken

Just wondering if Ms. Hakim is doing the Governor's dirty work with her management purge, or if she is really trying to change the culture? Time will tell.

Well, this could be a similar situation to when a new commanding general takes over and replaces all the top staffers, G-1 through G-5, with his own people.  Ususally it's nothing personal, but the new CG just wants people on the job he's used to working with.

[John WR]

Sandy,   

If you follow Governor Christy's acts thoughout his Governorship he demonstrates an impulsive pattern or behavior.    

If he was unhappy with the response to Hurricane Sandy it really doesn't make a lot of sense to wait 16 months to do anything about it.   And he has also replaced the head of  NJT Bus Operations, a lady who did quite a good job after Sandy.   

If the issue is the Superbowl, well NJT Rail Operations moved 33,000 people in two hours on a single track line designed to move 15,000 people per hour.   That is not exactly a failure.    

Finally Kevin O'Connor, the head of Rail Operations who was replace, did make the costly mistake of parking all that equipment in a swamp during Sandy.   In 2012 he also had NJT trains be on time 96 per cent of the time which is an all time record so he has a strong positive accomplishment  too.   

I just don't think our Governor is really capable of objective analysis or, if he is, he often doesn't use it.   

[daveklepper]

Has not he started a campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination?

[Firelock76]

daveklepper

Has not he started a campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination?

No-one's really sure about that Dave.  I've been watching and things still seem to be in a "will he, won't he?"  mode.

He's not a sure thing at any rate.  Chris Christie isn't universally popular in the Republican Party, for a variety of reasons.

[narig01]

I don't know if anyone is still reading this but Chris Christie's latest problems :

http://www.northjersey.com/mobile/news/christie-s-toll-money-shuffle-port-authority-funds-paying-for-repairs-to-state-roads-video-1.836409

Why didn't he just raise the gas tax a little?

Rgds IGN

[blue streak 1]

NJ Transit announces their new disaster plan

http://superstormsandyrecovery.com/img/documents/CEMP%20Rail.pdf

media analysis of disaster plan

http://www.northjersey.com/news/nj-transit-unveils-new-plan-to-protect-equipment-in-severe-weather-1.1033311

 

 

[blue streak 1]

NJ Transit rebuilding funds being held up by feds.  These are funds that were appropriated and passed but Trump's minions will not send them to NJT ! 

https://www.nj.com/politics/2018/12/nj-transit-asks-trump-wheres-the-300m-you-owe-us-for-sandy-damage.html