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When I worked on the Elizabeth Master Plan some years back, we wanted to get more residential to locate over the ground-floor commercial uses in Midtown, to increase foot traffic and activity levels...

One of the original concepts for Penn Station envisioned a hotel atop the structure, but the idea was veteoed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

A new use for part of the old PJP Landfill. I remember when the site was burning for about 5 years.
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I once was on Amtrak to NC. What is normally a 5 hour trip took 10 because we were caught behind a few CSX freights. I don't know about the rest of the Northeast, but in NJ freight is growing at a...

I agree totally. NS has serious freight capacity issues. Volume on the Lehigh Line in NJ is expected to double by 2040. Today its volume/capacity ratio is 0.6, by 2040 it will be 1.3. Check out this...

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Looks like Newark will become New Jersey's primary Intercity rail hub...[/QUOTE]

It only has 1...

Thanks Maria! :)

Wow, this brings back lots of memories! Thanks Maria!

I'm sorry about your Grandmother......

I remember going to Albany Street one night in the early 70s with my father to some sort of appliance store for a part or something. Very dark, very...

I'd say at least Ferry Street has bounced back, yeah? Ask your Mom or Grandmother to describe the block in New Brunswick before J&J redeveloped it. Pretty scary from what I can remember....

Are they the same Villani's that own (owned?) the bus company? And where does (Big) Steve Adubato fit in these days?

Nice pics BTW....

So I'll take that as a "No"?

Gotta love that "disrespect" thing though. I always thought that respect was earned, not something gotten through intimidation...

The UMDNJ displacements were a big...

Very true, but in the Garden's case I believe it was all private money. Could be wrong though......

I saw my first Rangers game at the old Garden in 1967.

Addonizio's corrupt administration also contributed to Newark's decline, no?

One of the things you strive for in seeking a healthy downtown is to have 24-hour pedestrian traffic. I remember years ago walking to Penn Station from NJIT at 10:00 pm and the place was a ghost...

Maybe so, but it didn't really add anything to your argument.

I agree with Nexis, they've invested billions into infrastructure while all we do here is argue about it.

Right. I guess that was the point I was trying to make. Size and operational differences aside, the US is still put to shame because, as Nexis says, we're doing nothing about it.

What?? Thieves on this board??? :)

Thats a good trip too. I went into Italy for a day and a half on my trip.

I don't disagee with you Newarkguy, those are good points. Maybe I should have qualified it: For a country its size, the rail service puts most to shame. You never wait more than three minutes for a...

Go to Switzerland if you can. I spent two weeks there doing nothing but taking trains all over the country. Their rail system is impressive. Puts this country to shame.

"The replaced a few in Chicago, so it shouldn't be too hard". Shouldn't be too hard??? Nexis, you're way over simplifying this. Doing anything substantial to that wall or to the bridges is full of...

Exactly. Thanks Newarkguy.

You might have read somewhere about the wall being replaced at some point, but think about it for a second. It would literally cost billions to remove it. It would disrupt traffic on the NEC and...

What you'e calling the "Viaduct" will not be replaced. True, there will be improvements done on top, within the ROW, but the wall itself will remain. Besides, its on the National Register of Historic...