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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] It only gets worse - FRONT PAGE (and above the fold): [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/nyregion/amtrak-penn-station-squabbles-commuters-mass-transit.html]New York Times[/URL] Fair Use: [i][list] [*]Commuters from the East End of Long Island to the western edge of New Jersey suffered a transportation meltdown and four days of upheaval last week — all because of the faulty maintenance of a federal railroad they may never ride. Amtrak accepted blame for the minor train derailment that forced cancellations and disrupted tens of thousands of commuters last week. That admission only exacerbated the frustration of the slogging hordes, reminding them just how deeply the New York City area depends on a network of transit agencies that do not always work as a team. The disruption highlighted an entrenched problem in the New York metropolitan area: The task of moving people around the most congested corner of the United States is divided among several autonomous agencies, each with its own priorities — and interests that often clash. As a result, in a region where the highways, bridges, tunnels, trains and subways are packed, even a minor accident like the one at Penn Station can reverberate far and wide — in this case, all the way to Washington. Once a jewel of the nation’s transportation network, Penn Station, North America’s busiest rail terminal, is now the overburdened nexus of two of the country’s biggest commuter railroads and its only viable intercity train service. Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Road combine to push and pull half a million people through the station’s aging infrastructure every weekday.[/i] [/list] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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