Re: (rshsdepot) South Amboy, NJ

["Don Dorflinger" <donnielee46_@_hotmail.com>]

What town does Mayor O'Leary live in??? Unless it's been dismantled or closed since last I was there, there IS a pedestrian walkway over the tracks at S. Amboy. 
How about a simple change in operating rules that would prohibit passing a stopped train in the station at speeds in excess of 15 MPH. 
Don

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>Subject: (rshsdepot) South Amboy, NJ 
>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 07:46:13 -0400 
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>Safety efforts renewed at S. Amboy station 
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>Appeal made after woman is killed on tracks 
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>Wednesday, May 15, 2002 
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>BY ALICIA GREY 
>Star-Ledger Staff 
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>Little more than a week after a woman was killed crossing the railroad 
>tracks in South Amboy, the city's mayor and an assemblyman made a public 
>appeal yesterday to NJ Transit's new executive director to make train 
>station improvements a top priority. 
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>City and state officials have talked for years about building an intermodal 
>transportation hub that would include a pedestrian walkway above the tracks, 
>an elevated platform and other changes. 
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>If these improvements had been in place, last week's fatal train accident 
>could have been prevented, Mayor Jack O'Leary said. 
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>Kathleen Osowski, a 32-year-old Brooklyn woman, was killed May 6 as she 
>hurried to catch a train to New York City. Witnesses said she walked around 
>the lowered gate at the Augusta Street train crossing and was struck by a 
>westbound NJ Transit train from New York City en route to Long Branch. 
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>O'Leary and Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) met with NJ Transit 
>Executive Director George Warrington yesterday to urge the agency to step up 
>its efforts to make the busy station safer. 
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>Wisniewski said that Warrington made "a commitment to look for money to see 
>that the overpass is the first part of the project." They said the director 
>would come back to them with an answer in a week. 
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>"It's not news that we've had plans to build an intermodal plaza, plans to 
>incorporate a high-level platform and walk-over that would make it safer 
>than it is today," the mayor said. "This is one of the most dangerous 
>crossings in New Jersey, if not the country." 
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>The city has already secured a $2.5 million federal grant to pay for the 
>plaza, which is expected to cost $6.4 million. 
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>The plaza will be the latest phase of a multimillion-dollar project to 
>modernize the train station, which sits behind Broadway. In all, NJ Transit 
>has allocated more than $20 million to make improvements to the train 
>station and parking lot. 
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>Dodging gates and trying to outrun trains is nothing new, commuters and city 
>officials said. 
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>"Everybody does it," said Sharon Bodnar of South Amboy, a regular commuter 
>who was at the station when Osowski died. 
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