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Regional Rail Working Group Monthly Meeting

12:35 AM EDT on August 13, 2007

The monthly meeting of the Regional Rail Working Group.

A key topic for discussion will be a presentation by Joe Clift of his analysis of the ability of Regional Rail lines serving the Bronx and Queens to divert peak hour passengers from overcrowded subway lines.

Agenda items for the August 15, 2007, meeting will include a quick update on each of these key initiatives:

    • Through-running at Penn Station
    • Upper Level Loop Alternative for LIRR East Side Access
    • Penn Station-Grand Central Connection
    • Rockaway Cut-off -- one-seat ride Midtown Manhattan-JFK Airport
    • Lower Manhattan Access
    • Regional Rail Freight plan
    • Intercity rail issues

The key discussion item will be the ability of Regional Rail lines to divert peak hour passengers from overcrowded subway lines serving the Bronx and Queens.

Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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