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Re: (rshsdepot) Lancaster, PA
actually it was Oregon State and they won
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/sports/4916522.html
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>From: I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com
>Sent: Jun 27, 2007 2:53 PM
>To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
>Subject: (rshsdepot) Lancaster, PA
>
>From today's Lancaster New Era.
>
>Bernie Wagenblast
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>12M train station work could begin next spring
>
>June 27 2007 - _Lancaster New Era (PA)_
>(http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/206099)
>
>By BERNARD HARRIS
>A decade after it was first proposed, renovation of Lancaster City`s Amtrak
>station may be coming around the bend.
>Station improvements, expected to cost more than $12 million, are on track to
> go to bid by the end of this year. Construction could start in the spring.
>Under that schedule, Amtrak passengers could see â by fall 2009 â increased
>parking, a separate waiting area for bus passengers, shops, restaurants, new
>Amtrak offices, upgrades to the nearly 80-year-old station`s heating and air
>conditioning systems and realignment of the station driveway to meet North
>Duke Street.
>``Nothing`s come along to convince me that we cannot make that date,`` said
>Christopher Neuman, the county transportation planner who is heading the
>project.
>Neuman told members of the county`s Transportation Coordinating Committee on
>Monday that the project had passed a major hurdle. The renovation plans have
>been approved by Amtrak planners.
>Last month, the plans were also given conditional approval by the Lancaster
>City Planning Commission, he said.
>Planners are now working to complete the city conditions and get final
>approval from the state Transportation Department, said Neuman.
>Once the work begins, it will be done while the station continues operating,
>he said.
>``That`s one of the complexities of doing a project like this. We have to
>work around the existing riders, he said.
>And the number of riders has been growing. Earlier this year, Amtrak
>ridership statistics showed a nearly 18 percent increase in passengers using the
>Lancaster station since additional trains were added to the Keystone line last
>October.
>Last year, more than 368,000 passengers arrived at or departed from the
>Lancaster station.
>It was the second-busiest stop on the Keystone line, behind Philadelphia, but
> ahead of Harrisburg, Neuman said.
>
>
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