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Posted by WillD on Tue Aug 31 20:43:17 2010, in response to Re: Rail Plans Delayed by Funding Shortfall, posted by RailBus63 on Tue Aug 31 19:49:44 2010. If they'd done it right to begin with we'd have a 25-30k passenger per day line using rapid transit cars at grade and operating right into Philadelphia. Instead the DRPA and NJDOT caved to BBD and pulled the anorexic 15k pax/day DLRV "alternate 4" out of their ass at the last second.As for your implied slight against the Riverline, it is wholly unfounded. Before the economic meltdown the increase in property values along the line had greatly reduced the requirements for state aid to school districts along the route. Now that property values have tanked there are problems, but Chrisco fixed that by just cutting funding to all schools. Finally, when the Transportation Trust Fund runs out of money it won't just be South Jersey that gets hit. The rest of the state will suffer as our federal matching funds disappear. We have a choice now, either we can borrow and Chrisco can yet again increase the state's debt, or we can buck up and raise the gas tax like we should have under Whitman's regime. |
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