Regional Rail Working Group Monthly Meeting

11:55 PM EDT on September 15, 2007

Agenda items for the September 19, 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

Discussion will continue on 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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