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This was posted as breaking news on railway Age's website today.

http://www.railwayage.com/breaking_news.shtml

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Schumer: PA should oversee New York-Penn Station work

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Monday called for the Port Authority of New
York & New Jersey (PA) to take over the reevelopment of Pennsylvania Station,
saying it would spur economic development on Manhattan's West Side. Schumer
said current economic woes should not interfere with the project.

"The natural inclination in these conditions can be to retract. Pull back. Put
all big projects on hold. Yet that is exactly the wrong approach and will
leave us in worse condition than we are in today when the next upswing
occurs," Schumer said in written remarks.

Penn Station, served by New Jersey Transit, the Long Island Rail Road, and
Amtrak, is Amtrak's largest station on the Northeast Corridor and the only
major Hudson River crossing (road or rail) linking New Jersey and Manhattan
not controlled by the PA. (Amtrak owns the Northeast Corridor; it and the LIRR
share operational control of Penn Station.)

Current plans, tabbed at $14 billion, call for moving the transportation hub
across Eighth Avenue into the James A. Farley post office, a landmark
building. The station would be named after the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, who spearheaded the idea. But the current plan has been dogged by
some community resistance and political maneuvering among Manhattan real
estate interests.

Notwithstanding such difficulties, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reiterated the
city's intent to proceed with the current plan, questioning Schumer's timing.
"If he gets us the money for Moynihan, we'll be able to do that at the same
time" as rebuilding the World Trade Center site, which the PA does oversee,
Bloomberg said. 

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