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Advances at New Jersey Transit
NEW JERSEY TRANSIT rail and bus services move about one million passengers per day. Among other customer pleasing events is the opening of the Pennsauken Transit Cen- ter, which allows easy connections between the trains of the Atlantic City Rail Line, the RiverLine light rail services and the buses of route 419. The station is fully accessible. Recently NJTransit introduced the My Tix app for smart phones; it turns a smart phone into a ticket for a journey. My Tix can also
Fair of Texas and St. Patrick’s Day. Thanks to David S. Cosgrove for the news.
handle weekly or monthly passes. Monthly passes self-activate at 12:00 a.m. on the first day of the valid calendar month, and weekly passes at 12:01 p.m. Saturday and expire at 6:01 a.m. on the following Sat- urday. For more information visit NJTran-
sit.com/mytix. By early 2014, all NJTransit rail lines will
have wifi access and for passenger conven- ience, all 164 rail stations will have ticket vending machines. Now the NJTransit My Bus Now and My Light Rail offer real time bus arrival and rail station schedule infor- mation. This information was supplied by old friend Jon Goodman, who reminds me that NJTransit is joined in providing service to the Garden State by the Port Authority Transit Cooperation that offers service be- tween downtown Philadelphia and Linden- wold, N.J.
A Boston Type 5 Revisited As far as I can recall, only Boston and Read- ing, Penn,, employed the Type 5 streetcar. Long out of revenue service, the Boston Street Railway Association, Inc. (P.O. Box 181037, Boston, MA 02118-0011) is in the process of restoring Type 5 No. 5706. The BSRA conducted a trip on November 16, 2013, to visit the restoration-in-progress at Rail Technical Services in Guilford, Conn. The charter bus trip from Back Bay Station included a journey to the Warehouse Point Trolley Museum at Windsor Locks, Conn.; that museum contains Type 5 No. 5645, a resident of the museum since 1959.
Dallas Success and Rail Replacement In spring 2014 the Dallas Area Rapid Tran- sit system will begin an 18-month long rail replacement project in downtown Dallas. The rail is worn ahead of original expecta- tions because the light rail service is far busier than had been expected.
DART has been providing service for a lit- tle over 30 years and now serves 95,000 pas- sengers per day. The DART management feels it is time to move away from major em- phasis on expansion and focus on maintain- ing its assets. The downtown track to be re- placed is girder rail, which is evidently more susceptible to damage from traffic than T rail; the trackage on Pacific Avenue and Bryan Street is girder rail. DART also lengthened its trains so that more wheels and more weight hammer the downtown track. Workers will have to adjust the troughs the rails sit in by a few centimeters. Strong efforts will be taken to avoid disrup- tions around such major events as the State
Bad Rail News from Philadelphia All capital goods need maintenance and re- pair as time goes on. The capital budget for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transporta- tion Authority has been very small for years and the lack of maintenance is beginning to show up. In a doomsday forecast SEPTA has projected that it will have to abandon most of its rail service by 2025. Only the Market- Frankford Subway/ Elevated and the Broad Street Subway lines will remain. All of the streetcar lines and all of the electrified com- muter rail services will have to cease. Cut- backs in bus service are also likely. More money from the state has been requested but there are forces set up against more sub- sidy with the argument that is something does not pay for itself it is not needed. A lack of capital is not unique to Philadel-
phia. Infrastructure nationwide is in less than great condition. Rethinking of local, state, and federal support is needed to figure out a longer run solution to infrastructure maintenance. The American Society of Civil Engineers has been sounding alarms for years that the public and its elected repre- sentatives have failed to heed. Thanks to John Spychalski and David Harris for the sad news.
Oregon Electric Railway News The Oregon Electric Railway Historical So- ciety publishes an excellent newsletter called The Transfer. There is news of current events as well as history of the early days of Oregon transit. For information contact Ore- gon Electric Railway Historical Society, 3995 Brooklake Road, N.E.,
Brooks, Oregon
97303; 303/393-2414. Bob Terkelsen can pro- vide information at 503/399-1882.
St. Louis Loop Trolley St. Louis has planned a trolley line to link the University City Library with the Mis- souri History Museum. In fall 2013 the proj- ect was in jeopardy of losing $22 million in federal funding because of slow implementa- tion. The Federal Transit Administration al- so expressed concern over the technical ca- pacity to carry out this project. The route would have a western terminus at Delmar Avenue and Kingsland Avenue. The service would operate to the east on Delmar to De Baliviere Avenue and then run to the south past Lindell Avenue to the history museum.
PLEASE SEND light rail, tran- sit and commuter rail news items and correspondence di- rectly to Prof. George M. Smerk, Emeritus Suite, Kelley School of Business, 1309 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1701.
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