Monday, June 27, 2022

the New Jersey High Speed Rail Improvement Program, planned to upgrade and improve 24 miles of track, between Trenton and New Brunswick, in 6 years, is only 2/3rd complete, and 6 years late. It only cost $450 M

 you expect nothing less, than over time, over budget, and not meeting the performance goals, in New Jersey, right? 

 Just last week, Amtrak announced that 16 of the 24 miles are now ready for 150 mph Acela train travel, the “fast” train along the Northeast Corridor from Washington, D.C. to Boston. When Amtrak gets a new Acela fleet next year, it expects to run 160 mph service on those 16 miles. The other eight miles are expected to be ready in 2024, a mere seven years late on a project expected to take six.

A basic rail upgrade that was supposed to take six years is seven years late, wildly expensive for what it is, and provides negligible time savings for riders

Back when the project was announced 11 years ago, then-transportation blogger and current fellow for NYU Marron Institute Alon Levy wrote that going from 135 mph to 160 mph would save about 100 seconds, not including acceleration and deceleration time. To put it another way, a stretch of track that used to take 10 minutes and 30 seconds to travel will now take about nine minutes.

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