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Posted by WillD on Tue Aug 31 16:25:37 2010 Onward to Gloucester County Rail v12.0, because why would anyone want to use mass transit to reach their job?Thanks for nothing Chrisco. The Gloucester Camden Rail Link wasn't perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than having no rail access to the most densely populated area of South Jersey. Meanwhile they're funding some $3.5 billion in this year's DOT capital budget, mostly in highway improvements, out of the Transportation Trust Fund. And that'll run out of money sometime around June of next year. Time to raise the gas tax or start borrowing to finance it. NJ has gone from bad to worse, to craphole in less than a year. |
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Posted by RailBus63 on Tue Aug 31 19:49:44 2010, in response to Rail Plans Delayed by Funding Shortfall, posted by WillD on Tue Aug 31 16:25:37 2010. Can't imagine why taxpayers in Jersey aren't tripping over themselves to fund another diesel light rail line to Camden. |
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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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Posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Aug 31 21:08:53 2010, in response to Rail Plans Delayed by Funding Shortfall, posted by WillD on Tue Aug 31 16:25:37 2010. People need jobs to get to first! |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Aug 31 21:12:07 2010, in response to Re: Rail Plans Delayed by Funding Shortfall, posted by RailBus63 on Tue Aug 31 19:49:44 2010. Nah; ARC is more important, even more so than good service. |
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Posted by WillD on Tue Aug 31 23:06:42 2010, in response to Re: Rail Plans Delayed by Funding Shortfall, posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Aug 31 21:08:53 2010. Camden and Gloucester counties have unemployment rates (10.6 and 10.1% respectively) which are within 1% of the both the national and state averages (9.6 and 9.6% respectively). There are plenty of people in both counties who are gainfully employed and squandering hours and hours of potential productivity in traffic on Rt42 and I-295. |
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