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This document provides
a timeline of citizens' and municipalities' efforts to stop the freight trian reactivation |
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This document provides
a timeline of events that have transpired. |
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Article on lawsuit against M&E in Morris County regarding
debris transfer station |
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Our latest press release |
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This decision relates to the SIRR from Staten Island to
the Chemical Coast and will carry among other things TRASH.
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"Freight Service on Track". Status of rail freight project.
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Please contact Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman
John Wisniewski and request that they post bill AJR105
for discussion and affirmative vote. Contact info for Chairman
John Wisniewski can be found here
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Please contact Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee
Chair Assemblyman John McKeon and request that they post
bill A2828 for discussion and affirmative vote. Contact
info for Assemblyman John McKeon can be found here |
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This link will bring you to a page containing all documents
related to docket #34054 as posted on the Surface
Transportation Boards (STB) website. |
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Finance Docket No. 34054: Request to the Surface
Transportation Board to reopen its decision of July 5, 2002
granting a Modified Rail Certificate to the Morristown &
Erie Railway, Inc. to operate certain railroad lines in
New Jersey including formerly abandoned lines of the Rahway
Valley Railroad and Staten Island Railway. |
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A letter from Senator Thoman Kean, Assemblyman Eric Munoz,
and Assemblyman Jon Bramnick asking the Surface Transportation
Board (STB) to reopen their July 5, 2002 granting a Modified
Rail Certificate to the Morristown & Erie Railway, Inc.
to operate frieght service along the Rahway Valley and Staten
Island Railway. |
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An article from the Daily Record about M&E's fight to
keep running in the dying short line railroad business. |
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8/5/2002 - County Manager, George Devanney, reassures
Kenilworth that track work being performed in order to "address
safety and public health concerns." He later reiterates
that the rehabilitation of the train lines "will not commence
until authorized by the County and only when municipal issues
and concerns are addressed and approved by your governing
body with regard to this project." |
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10/2/2002 - A letter from Union County Freeholder, Nicolas
Scutari, informing the residents of Union County that "there
is no intention of starting any rail service along these
lines in your community." Not only was this a boldface lie,
it was italicized as well. |
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The Coalition to Stop the Train press release that states
our concerns quite clearly and concisely. |
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An artcle by a certified real estate appraiser in which
he describes how the reactivation of the railway could RAISE
your property taxes. |
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