(erielack) Re: More NIMBYS

[Dave Rutan <"dlr_@_sparta.csnet.net">]

(I'm shaking my cinical head)

	...nearing the end of the study phase.

They should rename this project the Carl Sagan Starstuff line--millyuns
and millyuns of dollars...


'The $180 million effort to restore rail service is nearing the end of
the study
 phase.

 'A third and final study is near completion and rail officials from New
Jersey and
 Pennsylvania have already requested $5 million in federal funding to
begin
 preliminary engineering work.

 'Roughly $160 million, part of a massive 1998 federal transportation
bill, has
 already been approved for the project.'

Peter Heimbach wrote:
> 
> The NIMBYs again strike against rail service from Scranton to Hoboken.
> The Pocono Record headline this morning was “Smithfield derails train
> station plans.”
> 
> According to the article the supervisors were “adamantly opposed to “
> the train station in the town of Delaware Water Gap.”   “…”the
> supervisors’ concerns about congestion was the main reason for opposing
> the plan”
> 
> The public meeting to be held in January has been put off for 6 weeks
> 
> The full story is on the net at the this address
> 
> http://www.poconorecord.com/
> 
> click on this title on the news page Smithfield derails train station
> plans"
> 
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