This week, FCRP cosigned a letter from the National Association of Railroad Passengers protesting New Jersey Transit plans to construct new tunnels under New York's Hudson River.

The new tunnels will be dead-end bores which connect only to a new, deep-cavern station under 34th Street in New York. They will not connect to Penn Station, making them of marginal utility-- and of zero utility to Amtrak trains serving the region, including the New York-Florida trains.

FCRP and NARP believe that any new tunnels under the Hudson should connect to Penn Station, making them of greater usefulness to all railroad passengers.

NARP's letter can be found here: http://www.narprail.org/cms/index.php/resources/more/narp_letter_to_the_fta_regarding_the_new_hudson_river_tunnel/

--Jackson McQuigg