RE: (erielack) NJ/PA - Environmental Assessment for Lackawanna Cutoff now available

[ERIE LACKAWANNA <erie_lackawanna_@_yahoo.com>]

MARTZ Trailways has the alleged train service to Scranton, Express via Route 80 where not an inch of track has been laid to and from Port Morris, NJ and Gravel Place.
 
MARTZ fares are a lot lower than what combined NJ/PA Rail Fares would be and would not return to the trains which is why there is no demand for them. What currently operates is more then sufficient and economical.
 
Where are them West Shore commuter trains talked of for the past  50 years? After four railroads the NYC, PC, CR and and now CSX is still 100% freight only to and from Kearny and MP132 Selkirk, NY. Would be passengers just drive over the Newburgh, Bear Mountain and Tappan Zee bridge's and take the much quicker and economical Hudson Line. Not so if West Shore were revived.
 
Jerome

- --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:


From: Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
Subject: RE: (erielack) NJ/PA - Environmental Assessment for Lackawanna Cutoff now available
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 8:28 PM


> I understand the need for service to the Poconos because it's 
> within commuting distance of NYC.  But what is the purpose of 
> spending tons of money for train service to Scranton?  It's 
> too far to commute and if someone from there wants to go to 
> New York, they can take a bus.  Don't get me wrong, I love 
> trains as much as anybody else in this group, but we just 
> don't have the money for a line that would probably be 
> underutilized, to put it mildly.  


Because the state of Pa. will be subsidizing that portion....

And there *is* a market for that. Look at all the Martz buses on Route 80!


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