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MTA controls the LIRR and Metro North , it's all one agency and the new fare system will cover the commuter rails along with every NY transit system south of Albany. PATH will also use the new OMNY system and will roll out next yr. NJT decided to go with the same flawed company as SEPTA/PATCO, but there have been growing calls to dump it at least in North / Central Jersey for the cubic system. And the NY system has faced numerous delays I think they're 2yrs behind.

Burritos and Tacos Mexica is the place in Westwood , Lolita is so-so...

Pork Roll Child

Gender reveal party taken to the extreme.

If the Ivy Ridge Branch was never abandoned then it would be easy to convert part of the R6 into a Metro but it would better to just run service every 15mins which possible now. But converting without the Ivy Ridge Branch would cancel any restoration of service to Reading, and I doubt people coming from the outer suburbs/422 corridor would want to transfer to a Metro.

And it would provide a direct link from NW/CC to KOP.

I think it's only a few roundtrips per day, ending at 30th street. The Amtrak and PA State Rail plans seem to diverge a decent amount.

Ive done quite a few paths and trails using NJT or Metro North or LIRR though Long Island should only be done in the warmer months.

You can ride the Delaware and Raritan Canal trail from New Brunswick to Hamilton,NJ , its about 40 miles , i've walked 15 miles it between Hamilton to Princeton. Its relatively quiet not too many people.

They recently completed a heritage route south of Bordentown. So you could ride the Delaware & Raritan Canal trail from near the Cass Street RiverLINE station in Trenton , you access it via the Riverfront Park and Lamberton Rd and that will bring you to Bordentown which is about 8 miles. The Heritage route will bring you down Roebling and you can bike via the Back roads to Burlington which is about 9 miles.

On the NY side you have the Aqueduct pathway which runs from Yonkers to Irvington with a small detour in Tarrytown and North of Downtown Tarrytown to Scarborough and a small detour in Ossining and then from Ossining to the Croton Harmon Station or the Croton Dam. The Best Access is from Greystone Metro North Station. In Tarrytown you can alternatively ride along the Riverfront into Sleepy Hollow and access the trail from Gory Brook Rd entrance.

Oh ,the warmer temps likely pushed the food source closer to the ship lanes.

Which is ironic because most of the deaths can be linked to boat strikes.

We need to triple the amount of units built within the Downtown core and University Heights...I want to see a JC sized building boom within 5yrs..

Its being replaced , I believe the Passaic River NJT Bridge and the Bridge Street Bridge are next followed by the DOCK and FRB Bridge which will be rehabbed.

Its near 3 bus lines...so it has transit..

Both plans are oddly different from the state plans from 2010s which go all the way back to the 90s. The Amtrak 2035 plan calls for 2x service per day from Allentown and Scranton to NY. Under the PA State Rail proposal which i'm told is still the recommended plan , service would start in Harrisburg head east servicing all the major towns like Lebanon , Hershey , Reading then Allentown then more or less express to Newark with one intermediate stop. NJT would provide hourly service from Allentown to Newark-Hoboken. The same has been proposed for the Lackawanna cutoff which under the NY State rail plans restores service to the Southern tier / Buffalo/ Syracuse with at least 3x service from NYC. NJT would run trains every 2hrs from Scranton to Hoboken. The Lackawanna recently received funding for construction to Andover with phase 2 receiving some funding on the PA side.

Both are well-used but suffer from the congested roadways between the 2 cities... The Newark-Elizabeth routes and Airport / Port routes are also busy. The congestion on FRB needs to addressed... Central , Springfield and South Orange ave need BRT and Bloomfield needs a LRT.

The Waterfront Connection and Hunter Flyover along with the Passaic River Bridge replacement are in the funding phase... With Amtrak seeking to operate service to Eastern PA on the RVL and M&E I think you'll see those funded soon. They should run full weekend Montclair-Boonton line service not just the shuttle. The Union County BRT should be dropped in favor of the resurrecting the sheveled Newark-Elizabeth-Cranford LRT which was absent from this proposal.

I was wondering why it's so low , didn't realize Mulberry went all the way down there. I'm ok with that height in that part of the Ironbound. If it were near Penn then it should be a high rise or skyscraper.

They can with special permission from the FRA. NJT does it with the RiverLINE in South Jersey, and it will be done with the Northern Branch. A small section of the Newark Light Rail had freight on it until 2007. The NS Newark Branch sees very little traffic, so I doubt NJT will have any issues using the line. The height of the Catenary can be adjusted for freight clearance its not a fixed height. SEPTA has a section of streetcar that crosses the CSX main line and catenary is higher to meet the clearence of the double stack.

One train per week, and it could operate like the RiverLINE with freight limited to overnight hours... NS seems ok with NJT using its tracks for Light Rail or regional rail so long as they get some payment out of it or infrastructure upgrades. They don't operate double stack trains like on their main lines, so they would fight under the Catenary without issues. They are not ok with the state forcing them abandoned lines...hence they high purchase costs for the boonton Branch.

You might be able to get away with just a tall elevated Bridge for the Passaic River , the Hackensack would require a moveable bridge. Probably cost a few billion but still cheaper than widening the Turnpike or 1/9... The NJT line 1 bus is at capacity and this proposal would replace it and reduce the commute time seeing how the alignment would be grade separated..and with all the up zoning underway in Newark and rezoning / up zoning in Kearny and JC what option do we have?

I think in this case ,this would be a duplication of an existing service which currently being expanded.

A lot of the none movement falls on Murphy not doing as much as he said he would. We missed out on so much federal money for the backlog NJT projects and that falls largely on him. Other states even the Red ones have been more aggressive requesting and receiving funding for projects. I think as redevelopment of Urban Jersey and more so Newark-Elizabeth-The Oranges-Paterson you'll finally start to see the state push the feds to fund more urban rail projects. I'm somewhat hopefully that the proposed JFK Boulevard BRT will be a true BRT and not a watered down painted bus lane route.

That proposal is all but DOA thanks to the Gateway Project and alignment which would make any attempt of an extension extremely expensive.

It's a Branch track , so what goes in has to come out before another train can enter... All terminals have this issue which you can see at Hoboken on the PATH or LRT during rush hour. The original proposal during the 90s would have created a loop track, but that would have torn up more of the wetlands. There would have been electrification as well and high capacity trains piggybacking off an MTA Metro North order, but that plan was scrapped and along with most of the 90s/early 2000s plan for the state which would have addressed most of the issues that come up today whether it's crowd issues at events in the Meadowlands or Newark or NY or daily commuter frustrations or the congested strained corridors.