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Breach Of Contract Update

The Coalition to Stop the Train has sent copies of these Resolutions to 19 lawmakers and state officials, including the Governor, Attorney General, and the Union County Manager.

The main impetus for the five municipalities' common demand to "terminate funding" is Union County Freeholders' failure to enforce definite and specific stipulations listed in the May, 2002, contract with the Morristown and Erie Railway.

The Union County Freeholders thereby have breached their June, 2000, contract with the State Department of Transportation, which charged the County to "monitor and supervise all provisions" of the M&E contract.

All of the taxpayer funding, $14.6 million to date, for this freight railway has been squandered. Now in the seventh year of a ten year contract, there is no due compliance to each of the breached contracts.

May 2008: Coalition to Stop the Freight Train Attempts to Put the NJDOT Back On the Right Track
May 2008: Only 1 Response Out of the 19 Persons Who Received the Information and That Response Totally Misses the Point
February 2008: Five Union County Towns Submit Resolutions to Stop the Funding of M&E Freight Railway