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IRUM Comments on Hudson Tunnel Scoping Document
INSTITUTE FOR RATIONAL URBAN MOBILITY, INC. George Haikalis One Washington Square Village, Suite 5D President New York, NY 10012 212-475-3394 [email protected] www.irum.org November 30, 2016 Mr. RJ Palladino, Senior Program Manager Ms. Amishi Castelli NJ Transit Capital Planning Federal Railroad Administration One Penn Plaza East—8th Floor One Bowling Green, Suite 429 Newark, NJ 07105 New York, NY 10004 [email protected] [email protected] Re: Hudson Tunnel Scoping Document Dear Mr. Palladino and Ms. Castelli: The Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, Inc. (IRUM), is a NYC-based non-profit concerned with reducing motor vehicle congestion and improving the livability of dense urban places. A key IRUM effort is to make the case for transforming the three commuter rail lines serving the NY-NJ-CT metropolitan area into a coordinated regional rail system with frequent service, integrated fares, and thru-running, first at Penn Station and then by linking Penn Station with Grand Central Terminal. The Hudson Tunnel project is a key element of such an effort, and IRUM has followed the development of this project with considerable interest. IRUM submitted scoping comments on the Hudson Tunnel project in a May 17, 2016 letter to the project team, along with a lengthy attachment – The Hoboken Alternative (copies attached). 1. NJ Transit and USDOT responses to IRUM’s comments shown in the Hudson Tunnel Scoping Summary Report are deeply flawed. On Page 31 of the Scoping Summary Report, the Hoboken Alternative is wrongly dismissed as follows: “An alternative that passes near the Hoboken Terminal, would be substantially longer (with proportionally greater cost) than alternatives that go more directly between the NEC alignment near Secaucus and PSNY.” This is simply wrong. -
New Jersey Transit Corporation Rail Line 2014 Emergency Operations Annex
NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION RAIL LINE 2014 EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ANNEX Version 3 RECORD OF CHANGES Changes listed below have been made to the New Jersey Transit Corporation Rail Line Emergency Operations Annex since its creation. CHANGE # DATE PART AFFECTED EFFECTIVE DATE POSTED BY 1 3/19/14 All – Date updated from “2013” to 3/19/14 SMN “2014” 2 3/19/14 All – Corrected page numbering 3/19/14 SMN ii NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION – RAIL LINE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ANNEX 2014 RECORD OF DISTRIBUTION The New Jersey Transit Corporation Rail Line Emergency Operations Annex has been distributed to the individuals listed below. DOCUMENT RECIPIENT SIGNATURE CONTROL # 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 iii NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION – RAIL LINE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ANNEX 2014 DOCUMENT RECIPIENT SIGNATURE CONTROL # 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 iv NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION – RAIL LINE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ANNEX 2014 NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION RAIL LINE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ANNEX Table of Contents RECORD OF CHANGES ................................................................................................................................... ii RECORD OF DISTRIBUTION .......................................................................................................................... iii Figures .......................................................................................................................................................... vi INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................ -
Hoboken Alternative
The New ARC Hudson River Passenger Rail Tunnels: The Hoboken Alternative December 1, 2009 Prepared by George Haikalis President, Institute for Rational Urban Mobility One Washington Square Village, Suite 5D New York, NY 10012 212-475-3394 [email protected] www.irum.org Why via Hoboken? year time frame in the current plan, before any additional trains can be Routing the new Access to the handled across the Hudson. Region’s Core (ARC) Hudson River passenger rail tunnels by way of Other Important benefits of the Hoboken Terminal – the Hoboken Hoboken Alternative Alternative – allows existing rail infrastructure to be used more Significant environmental gains would productively. When combined with be realized as well. Since the Hoboken “Penn Station First” -- a simpler and Alternative routes trains over existing more direct Penn Station connection in underutilized tracks and bridges Manhattan -- the Hoboken Alternative through the Hackensack holds the promise of reducing Meadowlands, no wetlands would be construction cost of the new tunnels destroyed. A less costly construction and its essential related component -- scheme will greatly reduce the the Portal Bridge Capacity Expansion project’s carbon footprint as well. The project -- by more than $8 billion or route better serves the waterfront, 70% of the total $11.4 billion cost. providing motorists with a more attractive alternative and reducing Even in good times this option merits congestion which is at critical serious consideration, but in light of levels. the growing economic difficulties facing New Jersey and New York it is Routing the new tunnels by way of extremely important to give fair and Hoboken offers significant savings in impartial consideration to credible operating cost, while providing a much options. -
End-Of-Track Collisions at Terminal Stations Hoboken, New Jersey, September 29, 2016 and Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, January 4, 2017
End-of-Track Collisions at Terminal Stations Hoboken, New Jersey, September 29, 2016 and Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, January 4, 2017 Special Investigation Report NTSB/SIR-18/01 National PB2018-100561 Transportation Safety Board NTSB/SIR18/01 PB2018-100561 Notation 57381 Adopted February 6, 2018 Special Investigation Report End-of-Track Collisions at Terminal Stations Hoboken, New Jersey, September 29, 2016 and Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, January 4, 2017 National Transportation Safety Board 490 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20594 National Transportation Safety Board. 2018. End-of-Track Collisions at Terminal Stations, Hoboken, New Jersey, September 29, 2016, and Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, January 4, 2017. NTSB/SIR-18/01. Washington, DC. Abstract: The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) launched investigative teams to two very similar accidents within 13 weeks of one another. In both accidents, the engineers failed to stop their trains before reaching the end of a terminating track at a station. The September 29, 2016, accident on the New Jersey Transit commuter railroad at Hoboken, New Jersey, killed one person, injured 100, and resulted in major damage to the passenger station. The January 4, 2017, accident on the Long Island Rail Road (a subsidiary of Metropolitan Transportation Authority) at the Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, injured 108 people. As the NTSB investigations progressed, it became apparent that these accidents had almost identical probable causes and safety issues. The NTSB also realized that these safety issues were not unique to these two properties, but exist throughout the United States at many intercity passenger and commuter passenger train terminals. -
DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD, SOUTH BERGEN TUNNEL Jersey City Hudson County New Jersey PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTEN HISTOR
DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD, SOUTH HAER NJ-137 BERGEN TUNNEL NJ-137 Jersey City Hudson County New Jersey PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTEN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD PHILADELPHIA SUPPORT OFFICE National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Custom House, 3rd Floor 200 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD SOUTH BERGEN TUNNEL HAER No. NJ-137 Location: Through Bergen Hill from Prospect Street at Ogden Avenue to J.P. Kennedy Boulevard at Beacon Avenue, Milepost 1.46 of NJ Transit Morristown Line, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey UTM: 18.579780.4509950 Quad: Jersey City, New Jersey Date of Construction: 1908-1911 Engineer: Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (D.L.&W.) Present Owner: New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit), One Penn Plaza East, Newark, New Jersey 07105 Present Use: Railroad Tunnel Significance: The South Bergen Tunnel is technologically significant for its innovative concrete technology and is historically significant because it reflected the dramatic increase in railroad freight operations on the D.L.&W. Railroad by the opening of the twentieth century. Project Information: This documentation was initially undertaken, after consultation with the NJ SHPO in 1991, as a mitigative measure in anticipation of alteration or demolition of the South and North Bergen Tunnels. Documentation on the tunnels was begun in April 1991 by Frances Alexander, Chief, Architectural History; Christopher Martin, Senior Architectural Historian; and Jesse Daugherty ofEngineering-Science, Inc., Washington, D.C .. Additional research and documentation on the ventilator shafts and open cuts was undertaken in late 1994 by Stacy E. Spies for NJ Transit. -
APPENDIX F: Agency Correspondence NJ TRANSITGRID TRACTION POWER SYSTEM Appendix F – Agency Correspondence
NJ TRANSITGRID TRACTION POWER SYSTEM FEIS APPENDIX F: Agency Correspondence NJ TRANSITGRID TRACTION POWER SYSTEM Appendix F – Agency Correspondence Appendix F: Federal Aviation Administration Correspondence • FAA Email Correspondence to FTA- May 14, 2019 From: Moser, Daniel (FTA) <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 11:02 AM To: Geitner, John A. (CCAPJAG) Cc: Subject: FAA Comment on NJTransitGrid DEIS Notice of Availability John FAA (Darin Clipper) provided the following response (below) to our notification of DEIS availability. The email includes links to assist in preparation of the FAA Obstruction Evaluation / Airport Airspace Analysis (OE/AAA) and obtaining FTA project approvals. The FAA declined to be a participating or cooperating on the DEIS November 26th 2018 (Andrew Brooks). This email confirms that. However, FAA reiterated the need for NJ TRANSIT to complete FAA Obstruction Evaluation / Airport Airspace Analysis (OE/AAA) and any other FAA requirements prior to final design and construction in order to prevent temporary or permanent adverse effects on commercial aviation equipment and operations. Please forward this information to the NJTRANSIT project managers and contractors. Please include a copy of the email below in the DEIS record of agency comments. Dan Moser Community Planner Federal Transit Administration - Region 2 1 Bowling Green, Room 428 New York, NY 10004 Phone: (212) 668-2326 / Fax (212) 668-2136 From: Clipper, Darin <ESA> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 10:12 AM To: Moser, Daniel (FTA) <[email protected]> Subject: RE: NJTransitGrid DEIS Notice of Availability Mr. Moser, Please ensure those responsible for the construction project are aware of e-filing requirements with the FAA. -
June 2005 Bulletin.Pub
TheNEW YORK DIVISION BULLETIN - JUNE, 2005 Bulletin New York Division, Electric Railroaders’ Association Vol. 48, No. 6 June, 2005 The Bulletin CULVER SHUTTLE DISCONTINUED MORE THAN 30 Published by the New York Division, Electric YEARS AGO Railroaders’ Association, Incorporated, PO Box The portion of the Culver Line between Dit- On May 28, 1959, Culver service was re- 3001, New York, New mas Avenue and Ninth Avenue ceased oper- duced again, and trains shuttled between York 10008-3001. ating more than thirty years ago, May 11, Ditmas Avenue and Ninth Avenue at all 1975. There were only two stations, Fort times. Of course, riding fell off rapidly. th For general inquiries, Hamilton Parkway and 13 Avenue, on this Effective December 12, 1960, single-track contact us at nydiv@ mile-long structure, which was a part of the operation on the southbound track was in electricrailroaders.org or main line until the Ditmas Avenue track lay- effect because of a snowstorm. It was made by phone at (212) 986- out was rearranged during the October 30, permanent on December 29, 1960. 4482 (voice mail available). ERA’s 1954 weekend. We were unable to com- On May 11, 1975, service was finally dis- website is memorate this fiftieth anniversary because of continued between Ninth Avenue and Ditmas www.electricrailroaders. a lack of space in the Centennial Issue of the Avenue, almost a century after trains hauled org. Bulletin/Electric Railroads. IND trains pro- by steam locomotives started running on Editorial Staff: vided through service to Coney Island, the Gravesend Avenue, whose name was Editor-in-Chief: first time that trains were through-routed be- changed to McDonald Avenue in 1935. -
July 2003 Bulletin.Pub
TheNEW YORK DIVISION BULLETIN - JULY, 2003 Bulletin New York Division, Electric Railroaders’ Association Vol. 46, No. 7 July, 2003 The Bulletin CONCOURSE IND OPENED 70 YEARS AGO Published by the New The Concourse IND, which opened 70 years C—205th Street-Bergen Street: green/green York Division, Electric th Railroaders’ ago, Saturday, July 1, 1933, cost $44 million, CC—205 Street-Chambers Street: white/ Association, including $11,476,000 for cars at $38,000 white Incorporated, PO Box each. The first cars, 101-110, were delivered CC—Bedford Park Boulevard-Chambers 3001, New York, New to 207th Street Yard on August 8, 1930, long Street: green/white York 10008-3001. before the Eighth Avenue Subway was CC—Tremont Avenue-Chambers Street: opened on September 10, 1932. All 800 R-1 white/green and R-4 cars were in service on June 7, The July 3, 1933 schedule provided for C For general inquiries, contact us at 1933. trains operating during extended rush hours [email protected]. The first construction contracts were let making Concourse express stops in the di- early in 1928 and most of the work was com- rection of heavy traffic. C trains departed Editorial Staff: pleted by 1932. But the scheduled January 1, from 205th Street between 6:33 and 11:26 AM 1933 opening was postponed because the and from Bergen Street between 3:30 and Editor-in-Chief: city was unable to appropriate $200,000 to 6:50 PM. CC trains operated to Chambers Bernard Linder install lighting and other equipment. When Street at all times and to 205th Street when C News Editor: the civic groups complained, the Board of trains were not running. -
Guide to the Erie Railroad Collection
Guide to the Erie Railroad Collection NMAH.AC.1082 John Benko and Alison Oswald Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 2 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 2 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 2 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 2 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 4 Series 1: Photographs.............................................................................................. 4 Series 2: Glass Plate Negatives............................................................................ 28 Series 3: Lists, 1885-1976, 1885-1976.................................................................. 46 Series 4: Subject Files, 1877-1927....................................................................... -
IRUM Comments on Hudson Tunnel DEIS
INSTITUTE FOR RATIONAL URBAN MOBILITY, INC. George Haikalis One Washington Square Village, Suite 5D President New York, NY 10012 212-475-3394 [email protected] www.irum.org August 15, 2017 Mr. RJ Palladino, Senior Program Manager Ms. Amishi Castelli NJ Transit Capital Planning Federal Railroad Administration One Penn Plaza East—8th Floor One Bowling Green, Suite 429 Newark, NJ 07105 New York, NY 10004 [email protected] [email protected] Dear Mr. Palladino and Ms. Castelli: Re: IRUM Comments on Hudson Tunnel DEIS The Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, Inc. (IRUM), is a NYC-based non-profit concerned with reducing motor vehicle congestion and improving the livability of dense urban places. The Hudson Tunnel project is an important element of such an effort, and IRUM has followed the development of this project with considerable interest. In a November 30, 2016 letter to USDOT and NJ Transit, IRUM submitted comments on the Scoping Report for the DEIS for the Hudson Tunnel project. It asserted that the Scoping Report's responses to IRUM's May 17, 2016 scoping letter and IRUM report, The Hoboken Alternative, were "deeply flawed." Either through negligent carelessness or willful subversion of the truth, the errors IRUM had pointed out were not corrected. The DEIS instead repeated and expanded upon these errors in a variety of permutations, resulting in the Hoboken Alternative being eliminated from study. The DEIS treatment of the Hoboken Alternative was seriously flawed. IRUM's earlier documents are attached herein. The DEIS recounts the “obstacles” facing the Hoboken Alternative, while making no mention of the substantial benefits that would result from this routing cited in IRUM’s letter of November 30, 2016. -
Chapter 20 Section 4(F) Evaluation
Chapter 20 Section 4(f) Evaluation 20.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Act of 1966. Based on this Section 4(f) Evaluation, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has determined that the proposed Project would result in the use of the Old Main Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (DL&W) Railroad Historic District, which is a Section 4(f) property. This chapter discusses the identification of Section 4(f) properties within the Area of Potential Effects (APE) for the proposed Project, describes the effect of the proposed Project on those properties, and summarizes measures to minimize harm included as part of the proposed Project. 20.2 REGULATORY CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGY Section 4(f) of the DOT Act of 1966, as amended (23 C.F.R. Part § 774-codified in 49 U.S.C. 303 and generally referred to as “Section 4(f)) prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from approving any program or project that requires the “use” of: (1) any publicly-owned parkland, recreation area, or wildlife/waterfowl refuge of national, state, or local significance; or (2) any land from a historic site of national, state, or local significance (collectively, “Section 4(f) properties”), unless there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use of such land and such program and the project includes all possible planning to minimize harm to the park, recreation area, wildlife/waterfowl refuge, or historic site. A historic site is considered to be a property that is listed on, or is eligible for listing on, the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (“NR-listed” and “NR-eligible”). -
HUDSON County
NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office Page 1 of 22 New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places Last Update: 9/28/2021 HUDSON County George Goldman Apartment Building (ID#1450) HUDSON County 25-27 East 17th Street SHPO Opinion: 9/30/1991 Bayonne City Hale-Whitney Mansion (ID#3177) Bayonne Truck (Hook and Ladder) House Number One (ID#1446) 100 Broadway 12 West 47th Street NR: 6/7/1996 (NR Reference #: 96000657) NR: 1/2/1976 (NR Reference #: 76001155) SR: 4/24/1996 SR: 9/11/1975 668 Kennedy Boulevard (ID#3900) Bayonne Bridge (ID#3821) 668 Kennedy Boulevard Route 440 over Kill van Kull SHPO Opinion: 2/26/1985 SHPO Opinion: 8/2/2001 Lehigh Valley Railroad Historic District (ID#4154) Bayonne Trust Company (ID#3880) SHPO Opinion: 3/15/2002 231 Broadway See Main Entry / Filed Location: NR: 8/8/2006 (NR Reference #: 06000693) WARREN County, Phillipsburg Town SR: 4/20/2006 SHPO Opinion: 12/9/1994 COE: 1/30/2002 Maidenform Brassiere / Babcock and Wilcox (ID#28) 74 Lexington Avenue Bergoff Building (ID#3876) SHPO Opinion: 2/23/2000 473 Broadway SHPO Opinion: 12/9/1994 Maidenform Brassiere Company Factory Building (ID#4046) Avenue E at East 17th Street 873-875 Broadway (ID#1447) SHPO Opinion: 12/9/1994 SHPO Opinion: 12/22/1993 Mechanic's Trust Company Building (ID#3881) Central Railroad of New Jersey Passenger Depot (ID#1448) 21 West 8th Street SHPO Opinion: 12/9/1994 8th Street (Found not eligible as per SHPO Opinion: 4/24/2018 (D2018- 122-PROD) Demolished; rescinded SHPO Opinion from Mount Carmel Historic District (ID#3178) 9/11/1975) East