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Re: Tenafly hearing on Bergen County light rail expansion draws capacity crowd opposed to project {Maps} |
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Posted by UTC Bus Roster on Fri Jan 27 09:59:12 2012, in response to Re: Tenafly hearing on Bergen County light rail expansion draws capacity crowd opposed to project {Maps}, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jan 26 19:47:15 2012. I support the West Shore Commuter rail too. People haven't had any rail service since the New York Central RR shut down all passenger service around 1959. They claimed "lack of ridership," but they purposely eliminated the ferry service from Manhattan to the West Shore terminal in Weehawken. If people can't get to the train, then ridership drops, making it seem like dwindling ridership!There is definitely a market for passenger service restoration on the West Shore. The West Shore originally went from Weehawken, NJ to Albany, with a branch at Kingston that went to Oneonta. The New York Ontario also used their tracks for the southern part of their trip until their demise in 1957. FYI, I am selling New York Central "West Shore" timetables on ebay, as well as many other divisions, including the long-gone Putnam Division, which ceased on May 29, 1958. |
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