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NARP’s Campaign to “Fix the ARC”
Friday, February 06, 2009
Please read the op ed column, “Rail tunnel plan to N.Y. is a dead-ender,” which I co-authored with Dr. Vukan Vuchic of the University of Pennsylvania. This ran in the Sunday Feb. 1 Newark Star-Ledger along with a big photo of an Acela arriving at New York’s Penn Station. It also ran as a guest blog on the Star-Ledger website.
This continues our campaign to fix the ARC (Access to the Region’s Core) project to build new tunnels under the Hudson River which will not connect into New York’s Penn Station. We are working hard to get this project fixed to provide the benefits taxpayers have a right to expect from a $9 billion, 200-year project.
In a response, New Jersey Transit Executive Director Richard Sarles noted the benefits that will come from the project as currently proposed, but of course said nothing about the huge missed opportunity, and the benefits that should but will not accrue from such a huge taxpayer investment unless the faulty NJT plan is fixed.
Also see my letter published January 28 in the Asbury Park Press (NJ), “Tunnel project makes no sense.”
—Ross Capon
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