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Re: (erielack) Will the Lackawanna Cutoff rail line pay off?

That just beats everything, an environmental group opposed to rail transit. 
Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees; using their logic, we should 
abolish the wheel because it might encourage people to venture out of the 
city. These folks are a french fry short of a Happy Meal. What a hoot!

Paul B

From: "Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>
Subject: (erielack) Will the Lackawanna Cutoff rail line pay off?

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080601/NEWS05/806010358/1203

Will the Lackawanna Cutoff rail line pay off?
June 1, 2008

We know that highways fueled housing development in formerly rural 
communities, but does mass transit still have that kind of clout?

We doubt it, but the New Jersey Sierra Club is raising the dreaded specter 
of sprawl after the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority unveiled 
plans last week to build a seven-mile rail line between Roxbury and Andover.

The line would be the first link in the proposed 88-mile Lackawanna Cutoff 
train line to Scranton, Pa., that the Sierra Club also opposes. Construction 
would start just west of the current NJ Transit stop in Roxbury's Landing 
section.

The line would be the first link in the proposed 88-mile Lackawanna Cutoff 
train line to Scranton, Pa., that the Sierra Club also opposes. Construction 
would start just west of the current NJ Transit stop in Roxbury's Landing 
section.

Why the Sierra Club's disapproval?  We thought environmental groups liked 
the idea of fewer cars on the highway, which is the whole point of the 
long-sought Lackawanna Cutoff.

Sierra Club executive director Jeff Tittel maintains that running a commuter 
line through rural Morris and Sussex and into Pennsylvania would backfire.

"You're going to end up with more (housing) development in the middle of 
nowhere," Tittel said.

"When you run a railroad into a rural area, it's no different than running a 
highway."


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