GlobeSt.com, 6/19:
Amtrak Gateway Program: No Choice, Rail Exec' Says
WEST ORANGE, NJ-There’s really no choice about whether to undertake the $15 billion Gateway Program that will double rail capacity and unstick the service bottleneck between New Jersey and New York City, says Amtrak’s chief of development for the project.
“Something has to happen in the Northeast corridor,” Robert LaCroix told a roomful of commercial real estate executives at a NAIOP session at Mayfair Farms here Tuesday. “It is going to happen, because: What are the choices?”
The Gateway Program, begun last year with federal planning funds, will increase track, tunnel, bridge and station capacity and update the current old and over-used infrastructure.
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