Lackawanna Cutoff Project Gets Boost From Feds

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by GiantRutgersfan

I think its good for the PA cities like Allentown/Easton/Scranton.

Makes a lot more sense now then it did 10 years ago with partial WFH being so widespread and various technological changes. Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to take the train from Allentown to Manhattan twice a week.

Lackawanna cut off in it's prime, there were few better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DiN_qFWo70

Shame in this country how we let things go to pieces, then spend billions of dollars later to put it back together.

[Kracer]

Same flawed thinking went into the proposed Tocks Island dam!

Feds purchased property that was supposed to be underwater, Warner bros , playboy club moved into the northwest no mans land. Fed sanctioned projects do equate to guaranteed success or even a validate chronic poor planning for which NJ is known..

Not enough ridership and destruction of the vanishing open space. The pipelines were killed because of the uproar, now a rail line through north west NJ is okay????

Think of all the fed backed projects across the country and many boondoggles come to mind.

Feds are flush with infrastructure cash, a better use for that money than a destructive RR that will serve a handful of NYC commuters who chose to live where they live.

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by Kracer

Same flawed thinking went into the proposed Tocks Island dam!

Feds purchased property that was supposed to be underwater, Warner bros , playboy club moved into the northwest no mans land. Fed sanctioned projects do equate to guaranteed success or even a validate chronic poor planning for which NJ is known..

Not enough ridership and destruction of the vanishing open space. The pipelines were killed because of the uproar, now a rail line through north west NJ is okay????

Think of all the fed backed projects across the country and many boondoggles come to mind.

Feds are flush with infrastructure cash, a better use for that money than a destructive RR that will serve a handful of NYC commuters who chose to live where they live.

ACoE then and still today was all powerful. If they wanted a project done just as with military in general ACoE knew which ears to bend in Congress to at least get ball started.

Sadly for ACoE between costs of Vietnam war, fierce opposition from two successive governors of NJ, local affected populace of affected areas, environmentalists among others, knifes were out to put the kibosh on project. It didn't help matters when geological reports came in that the land wasn't stable enough to support an earthen dam. That as that say was that with commission in charge voting to end the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocks_...cks_Island_Dam

https://jimquest.com/writ-history-tocks-island/

Should like to point out Lackawanna Cutoff is already built. What seem to be huge costs in restoring ROW pale in comparison to building new today. What a private RR did nearly one hundred or so years ago never would happen today. Even federal government would balk at costs of building Lackawanna Cutoff from scratch.