Lots of Press in attendance. More details to follow. Monroe County is in negotiations with Norfolk Southern to buy the remaining 13 miles from Slateford Junction to Analomink. NJ Transit's Penn Station NY terminal serves a record of nearly 100,000 NJ riders each day. This figure is expected to go even higher when the Secaucus Transfer station opens in 2002.
Volumes are at epic proportions.
The average annual delay per person climbed from 11 hours in 1982 to 36 hours in 1999. And delay over the same period quintupled in areas with less than 1 million people. By themselves, additional roadways do not seem to be the answer. This is the highway corridor in Morris, Warren and Sussex Counties where we have over 700,000 auto trips per week where no rail service presently exists. See headline story above .