I attended the session at Cranbury Lake yesterday. I also attended the initial public session at the Delaware Water Gap 2 or so years ago. Unlike the first session, this session was very confusing and gave little hard information. As best as I can tell, the Environmental Analysis (EA) will be released in October. These meetings were required to gather "public input" into the final EA report. So if you commented (in writing on the provided forms) about noise, pollution, traffic, etc. your comments will be taken into account. If you say it will cost too much, serve too few people, etc. then your comments are not part of the EA. Part of the reason the meeting was confusing was (I think) an attempt to disarm the well organized NIMBYs from Byram Township. Their goal appears to be to stop the project altogether, or failing that to eliminate the proposed station stop at Andover. I mostly listened to them yell and curse at NJT representatives. I did engage one women who claimed there is a "secret plan" to move spent nuclear power plant rods over this line to the Tobyhanna Army Depot! The most useful thing a got out of this meeting were a series of poster boards showing where all of the stations are to be located and how road access and parking would look like at these sites. Tim ------------------------------
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