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

   One way to resolve this population problem would be castration, but I don't think Mr. Tittle (tittilate) would like that either.
Walt Smith> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:32:46 -0700> From: allen.wahlstrom_@_yahoo.com> Subject: Re: (erielack) Will the Lackawanna Cutoff rail line pay off?> To: erielack@lists.railfan.net> > God I hate tree huggers! > OK so lower CO emissions...right. But we might build more houses? Freaks.> AW > ELHS 4013> > > ----- Original Message ----> From: Paul Brezicki <doctorpb@bellsouth.net>> To: EL Mailing List <erielack@lists.railfan.net>; Paul Tupaczewski <paultup@comcast.net>> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2008 5:45:36 AM> Subject: 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 Sier!
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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."> > >     The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List>     http://EL-List.railfan.net/>     To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html> > > > > > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List> http://EL-List.railfan.net/> To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html
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