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Train improvements for Orange County

Jim Gordon

Jul-02-09, 12:44 PM

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Topics: Transportation

You can’t get there from here, the old adage goes, but maybe not for long.

Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut journeyed to Orange County July 1 to discuss Metro-North initiatives and services in the region.

Appearing at the Sugar Loaf headquarters of the nonprofit Orange County Citizens Foundation, Permut outlined the many improvements that Metro-North has provided for riders on the Port Jervis line west of the Hudson River, with $300 million invested over the last 15 years to upgrade tracks and locomotives and buy new passenger cars. The Port Jervis line now has the most modern stock of rail cars of any of Metro-North’s three other lines, with newer cars than the Hudson River, Harlem or New Haven lines.

And he said buses must fit into the transit equation since rail rights of way are expensive to buy and develop for far-flung locales.

Permut has been president of MTA Metro-North Railroad since July 2008. He is only the 4th President in the railroad’s history and was part of the original team that created Metro-North out of the Conrail commuter operations in New York and Connecticut in 1983 and been at the forefront of expanding service and ridership – both East and West of the Hudson River.

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