Dan Stessel
Dan Stessel
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We recently had a fare increase, and so even with the cost of gas being what it is lately, I do not foresee a raise in our rates.
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It's difficult to attribute that to a single factor; the high cost of gas would have something to do with it. More importantly is the additional service.
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It becomes a manual process with heavy radio traffic. It's slow, methodical, and reduces capacity to a fraction.
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It is a $23 million project divided into three phases, and it is currently in the second phase. We are currently doing work on the eastern end of the platform, and Phase II will be completed this fall. Phase III will shift to the west end and will be six months in duration. The entire project will be completed by next spring.
Had it not been replenished or reformed by the governor, we would not have been able to proceed.
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The purpose is to reduce the chance that somebody would be tempted to take an illegal or ill-advised shortcut across the railroad tracks.
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For residents of these densely populated communities, the light rail will provide unprecedented mobility and convenience. This is a huge day for Union City, West New York and North Bergen.
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Most of the cars are on their side.
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Travel right now is treacherous in many areas of the state, and it looks like it will remain that way for some time.
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What could be a single relatively minor problem for one train can wind up affecting the entire morning service for all the trains behind it, because there's no way to work around it.
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There's no common thread to the delays. We understand the customers' reaction to the delays. We are working diligently to correct the problems.
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We build for the future. We wouldn't want it to be at its capacity at the end of the first or second or even fifth year.
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There have been some intermittent improvements over the years, but the station has, over time, experienced deterioration to its concrete passenger platform. We have conducted annual inspections that revealed water infiltration and the effect of salt corrosion.
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There has not been anything systemic that we can point to or work to rectify in any meaningful way, which has been part of the challenge. I almost wish I could point to something.