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RE: (erielack) Fwd: [NSTier] Train from Bingo to NYC

"While yes, a good number of the cars in the parking lot at Port Jervis station have Pennsylvania
plates,"

Well, DUH!  You'd only have to live, what? Five miles away to need your car registered in PA.

SGL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim McCormack [mailto:JMcCormack_@_erie-lackawanna.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:00 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.elhts.org
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Fwd: [NSTier] Train from Bingo to NYC
> 
> Metro-North's legal authority to provide service ends at the Orange County line, which in this
case is the Mill Rift
> bridge. Without some enabling legislation in Albany and Harrisburg, and a funding authority to
contract with MNR to
> provide the service, there's no going west of Port Jervis.
> 
> This is all speculation anyway. While yes, a good number of the cars in the parking lot at Port
Jervis station have
> Pennsylvania plates, the ridership numbers just wouldn't justify the cost of extending the
service. In addition, at today's
> track speed, it's 40-50 minutes to go the additional 30 miles...most people will continue to drive
at that rate, and I doubt
> the money is there to bring the track back up to speed.
> 
> Jim
> 
> >>> EL Mail List Digest <erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org> 12/02/2007 05:33 >>>
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> References: <id.30112007213136.00000_@_FPE>
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:44:02 -0500
> From: "Montgomery, Edward T" <Edward.Montgomery_@_fcps.edu>
> Subject: RE: Re: (erielack) Fwd: [NSTier] Train from Bingo to NYC
> 
> Route 17 seems to more closely follow the old NYO&W rather than the Erie.  That area is probably
more populated.
> An initial step might be funding a few MetroNorth trains to run to Lackawaxen to see what might
happen.
> 
> Ed Montgomery
> 
> 
> 
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