Passenger Trains > NJ Governor candidates and passenger rail?

NJ is one of two states to be electing governors this year, so I took a look at their positions on rail.

LtGov Guadagno favors an audit of NJ Transit to root out fraud and waste. She also favors eliminating the panel of four appointees who control capital spending on transit. That was initially put in to remove spending decisions from the governor and the leadership, but the governor and leadership appoint the four members. She also favors completion of the tunnels and NY Penn with federal dollars. The LtGov was previously Monmouth County sheriff.

http://www.kimfornj.com/fix_transportation_and_transit

Ambassador Murphy also favors an audit, and favors a "czar' to manage Penn Station fixes and working with Amtrak. He favors indefinite cross honoring with PATH, buses, etc. (In NJ, a bus from point a to point b may be half the cost of a train between the same points. In emergencies, bus tickets are honored on trains, and vice versa.) The former Goldman Sachs executive also wants commuter representation on the NJ Transit board.

https://www.murphy4nj.com/issue/nj-transit/


Their primary opponents brought out a number of fine suggestions. Extending the A train across the George Washington Bridge and all the way to Paterson. Expanded ferry services. A tax agreement with NY to keep more NJ commuter tax revenue in NJ (like NY would agree to that). Assemblyman Wisnieski suggested rooting out political appointees at NJ Transit. Merging NJ Transit, the state DOT, and the state Motor Vehicle Commission was mentioned. More light rail.


http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/every_candidate_for_nj_governor_has_a_plan_to_fix_1.html

Whoever it is, they need to cleanse upper and middle management of the unqualified, political hacks.

The idea of having the 8th ave subway go across the GW bridge is as old as the bridge, afaik. Center tracks at 168th st. Now...they just dead end into a small underground yard north of 170th st. The bridge is at 175th st.

The original GW bridge was built with foundations to support a lower level for rail.

They eventually became an additional traffic level.

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