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@DavidDuck, read the Amtrak 2012 NEC Vision plan and the 2010 NEC Infrastructure Master Plan on the Amtrak website on the Reports & Documents page.

Amtrak has many projects and track upgrades to speed up the current NEC. The Gateway Project will reduce the trip time between NY Penn Station and Newark, not just fix a critical capacity bottleneck. The 2012 NextGen NEC Vision should be split into 2 parts: a large slate of improvements hopefully completed by 2025 to achieve a 2:12 DC to NYC trip time on the Acela (or Acela II) and the "NextGen HSR NEC" (the $117 billion dollar part).

The NECfuture.com website is part of planning process for the NEC with the FRA and Amtrak taking the lead to write a formal Tier I EIS document for the entire NEC so all the stakeholders which include Amtrak, Metro-North, CDOT, MBTA as the owners of portions of the NEC and NJ Transit, SEPTA, MARC as the additional commuter operators can use it.

by AlanF on Jul 25, 2012 6:43 pm • link • report

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