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Nexis4Jersey t1_iydyagq wrote

Reply to comment by dualOWLS in Alternative uses for the $10.7bn turnpike widening fund by mevinkurphy75

The PA built the JFK Airtrain which would be very similar to the design of a elevated light metro...

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dualOWLS t1_iydzfdz wrote

And they are building a Newark airport extension, we're still talking about to and from or even near areas they own. NJ owns the old ROW and PATH would have NYC to convince to spend money on buying property in NJ, and then building NJ only projects that they would then lose money on.

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Nexis4Jersey t1_iydzvbi wrote

PA has no issue spending big on projects on either side of the hudson look at the Airport expansions , expansions done at the Ports...and the Freight rail network feeding into them...so I doubt they'll run into opposition over that for a path extension in Hudson County.. Amtrak owns the ROW to EWR and conflicts with some NEC upgrade plans..

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dualOWLS t1_iye0msp wrote

These are things they make money on. They are not building out on NJ ROW that connects 0 PA assets and has no money flow benefits for them. They are upgrading airports, ports, and freight but the only thing they've done for the train (apart from connect it to Newark airport, thus eating known profits from NJT) is reduce service year after year. They are losing immense amounts of money on it, there is no way they're expanding the train anywhere.

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