[net-gold] TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER : UNITED STATES: STATES: NEW YORK: Partial Port Jervis Train Service Gets Back on Track
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- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:55:52 -0400 (EDT)
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TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER :
UNITED STATES: STATES: NEW YORK:
Partial Port Jervis Train Service Gets Back on Track
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Partial Port Jervis Train Service Gets Back on Track
Mid-Hudson Radio
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2011/
September/16/PJ_train_restore-16Sep11.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/42uw6po
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TUXEDO While the 14 miles of track between the Harriman and Suffern
Metro-North stations will take months to repair, the MTA announced
measures on Thursday afternoon to placate customers in the meantime.
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Its far from a perfect fix. Commuters will still be faced with a
train-bus-train scenario.
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Those who depend on the Port Jervis Line have had to make do with
MTA-provided bus transport since the storm, but starting Monday 17 trains
will run daily from Port Jervis to Harriman, where buses will bring
travelers to a NJTRANSIT station with connections to Secaucus, Penn
Station and Hoboken. The announcement was made by Metro-North Railroad
President Howard Permut while inspecting the damage in Tuxedo.
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Since the storm was done, restoration of service on the Port Jervis line
has been the top priority of Metro-North Railroad and it will remain so
until we have rebuilt the entire line and fully restored rail service to
what it was before the storm, Permut said.
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September 15, 2011, 4:45 pm
Metro-Norths Port Jervis Line Slowly Returns
By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
New York Times
NY / Region
City Room
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/
metro-norths-port-jervis-line-slowly-returns/
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Metro-North Railroad is restoring parts of the Port Jervis train line
faster than expected after 14 miles of tracks were uprooted and wiped out
by Tropical Storm Irene.
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Starting on Monday, Metro-North will run trains from the lines endpoint in
Port Jervis to Harriman, five stations down the line. Passengers can
transfer there to buses that will take them to the New Jersey Transit
Ramsey/Route 17 train station, five more stations down the line towards
its terminus in Hoboken, N.J., where city-bound commuters can catch the
PATH train.
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Following the Aug. 28 storm, commuters nearly lost their train line
entirely. Even though the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,
Metro-Norths parent, is struggling to trim costs in its capital budget and
the Port Jervis train line serves only 2,300 weekday commuters, the
authoritys chairman, Jay H. Walder, visited the damaged tracks shortly
after the storm and pledged that they would be rebuilt.
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Part of Port line to reopen
New bus, train combinations cut travel time
Times Herald Record
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20110916/BIZ/109160383/-1/SITEMAP
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3klvgo8
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When they arrive at their usual boarding station in the morning, commuters
will now find buses to NJ Transit's Ramsey/Route 17 station alternating
with Metro-North trains to Harriman, where other buses will shuttle them
to Ramsey, N.J. All busing to Beacon will be eliminated.
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And when they get to Ramsey, they will find more trains and more seats,
including several "semi-expresses" that have fewer stops in New Jersey en
route to Hoboken, N.J. The evening rush will mirror the morning's. The new
schedules are posted at
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http://www.mta.info
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"This is the first of many steps Metro-North is taking to restore full
train service," Howard Permut, Metro-North's president, said Thursday. "We
believe it is an improvement over the bus plan in place for the past few
weeks."
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Permut spoke at a press conference beneath the Arden Road bridge over the
Port Jervis line, where flood waters have washed out sections of the
track. He was joined by Orange County Executive Ed Diana, Susan Metzger,
Orange County's delegate to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and
Carl Wortendyke, Rockland County's delegate.
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Pointing to trucks that were dumping stone along the track, Permut said
the railroad was scouring quarries throughout the Northeast to find enough
ballast to repair 50 washouts that would cover two miles if they were
combined. To rebuild the railroad through Tuxedo and Sloatsburg, where the
damage is severe, he estimated Metro-North would need at least 100,000
tons of fill from 2,500 trucks.
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Permut, shouting over the noise of New York State Thruway traffic, still
resisted putting estimates on how long the line will be out of service
beyond "months" or how much the reconstruction will cost beyond "tens of
millions of dollars."
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