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Re: “It always stinks in Elizabeth! What is that smell?” (Friday’s Trip & Pics) |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Sep 23 04:45:14 2007, in response to Re: “It always stinks in Elizabeth! What is that smell?” (Friday’s Trip & Pics), posted by JBar387 on Sat Sep 22 04:39:47 2007. I'm kinda suprised that they don't think of light rail for the rowYou wound me, sir. Light rail has been thought about for that ROW since the early 90s. Remember the Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link, the "other Newark Airtrain"? The NCS extension to the former DL&W Broad Street Station was to have been the first segment of same. "Newark Light Rail" was supposed to have been named Newark-Elizabeth Light Rail. The plans went through a multitude of proposals, including user wish lists for extensions to Plainfield (via the CNJ four-tracks-and-greater ROW) and Summit (using the Rahway Vallely RR main line through Kenilworth, Union and Springfield). Jeff Warsh, Warrington's predecessor, even went so far as to mention a tunnel under Newark Bay to connect the HBLRT with the NELR. I myself didn't like merely using Elizabeth as the terminus, which would have been quite a waste. (Of course, the tunnel idea got my hopes up for seeing commuter rail on the line again, possibly running to Hoboken via the current freight-only tracks and the National Docks branch.) Warrington stabbed that project, though, declaring it "complete" when the segment to "NBS" was finished. |
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