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Rail
Projects
New Jersey Rail Freight Assistance
Program
The New Jersey Department of Transportation
(NJDOT) solicits proposals for
new rail projects annually. Those
that meet the minimum criteria
are entered into the program. Then
NJDOT selects those it will be
able to fund in the current fiscal
year and those that it will consider
for funding within the next two
years. From 1994 to the present,
the State of New Jersey has provided
more than $65 million for rail
projects through the New
Jersey Rail Freight Assistance
Program (pdf
91k). Each year the plan is
updated, the goals are reviewed
and new projects are added.
Since 2004, the state has provided
funding for 90 percent of the estimated
cost of each project while the
railroad (or other sponsor) has
provided the remaining 10 percent.
The Summary (pdf
25k) lists
each project that has been accepted
into the New Jersery Rail Freight
Assistance Program every fiscal
year since 2003 with the individual
total cost and the funded amount.
Express Rail
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is making significant investments to increase rail capacity at Port
Elizabeth
and
Newark. The
improvements have already tripled the capacity for on-dock rail service, and the Authority is continuing to increase rail capacity at the port to
handle the ever-increasing number of containers.
North Jersey Development Plan
This ongoing program is a public-private partnership among the State of New Jersey, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Conrail, Norfolk
Southern Corporation and CSX Transportation to construct a series of improvements in support of improving rail service to Port Newark and Port
Elizabeth. Phase 1 projects, costing over $50 million include improvements to signal systems, rail yards, and the restoration of double track on the
Lehigh Line.
MAROPS
The ongoing Mid-Atlantic Rail Operations Study (MAROPS) consists of
- five states in the Mid-Atlantic Region -- New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia;
- three Class I Railroads -- CSX, NS and Amtrak; and
- the I-95 Corridor Coalition Intermodal Program Track -- a ground-breaking effort for the project partners and for transportation planning and
analysis.
The project studies rail bottlenecks in the five states and identified 71 Capital and ITS projects that could be undertaken to improve mobility,
particularly for freight in that region. The work undertaken and achieved in MAROPS has become nationally known, respected and admired and has been
heavily publicized. More information is available for this project. |
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