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Regional Rail Working Group Monthly Meeting

Agenda items for Wednesday's meeting will include an update on each of these key initiatives:

By Aaron Donovan

10:27 PM EDT on October 14, 2007

Agenda items for Wednesday’s meeting will include an update on each of these key initiatives:

Thru-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 focus on thru-running technology and service planning issues at Penn Station and between Penn Station-Grand Central.

The purpose of the working group is to develop and advance plans for converting the region’s commuter rail lines into a regional rail system, with fast, frequent service and affordable, integrated fares. The group also considers changes to rapid transit and light rail transit that are “regional” in scale.

Regional Rail issues are discussed on the RRWG website.

The working Group includes:

Empire State Passengers Association
NJ Association of Railroad Passengers
Lackawanna Coalition
Five Towns Rural Transit, Inc.
Committee for Better Transit
Institute for Rational Urban Mobility

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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