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Regional Rail Working Group
A Consortium of Transit Advocacy Organizations:
New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers
Empire State Passengers Association
Lackawanna Coalition
Five Town Rural Transit
Committee for Better Transit
Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, Inc.
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The purpose of the working group is to develop and advance plans for converting the region's commuter rail lines into a regional rail system, with fast, frequent service and affordable, integrated fares. The Penn Station Metro-Hub plan sets the stage for doing this. Subsequent steps are access to Lower Manhattan and the Penn Station-Grand Central link. The group also considers changes to rapid transit and light rail transit
that are "regional" in scale.
The Working Group holds monthly meetings, now usually on the fourth Wednesday, in Lower Manhattan. Minutes of past meetings are available on this site. The next meeting will be Wednesday, April 23, 2008, in the Conference Room, NYPD Downtown Center, 104 Washington Street (just north of Rector Street) in Lower Manhattan. For the Agenda of the April meeting, click here. In addition to the general monthly meetings of the Working Group, proceedings and reports of affiliates such as the Rockaway Subcommittee, focusing on particular rail initiatives within the region, are available in the current projects section of this Website.
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