From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 11:45:03 AM UTC-4, Clark F Morris wrote:   
   > On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 18:07:45 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"   
   >  wrote:   
   > >On Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 7:03:10 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
      
   > >> I know that there are aspirations to restore service between New York   
   > >> and Binghamton via the Lackawanna Cut-Off. Has anything happened with   
   > >> that over the past 12 months?   
   > >> AIAUI, Amtrak undertook a preliminary study on the resumption of   
   > >> passenger service on the Southern Tier, perhaps to Buffalo, also via the   
   > >> Lackawanna Cut-Off and Binghamton. Any movement on that? My guess is no,   
   > >> under the current Administration.   
   > >> Erie Lackawanna ran service to Chicago out of Hoboken via that route   
   > >> until early 1970, it turns out, but I thought that EL also ran passenger   
   > >> trains to Binghamton via Port Jervis. When did that end?   
   > >> The Southern Tier line's route between Port Jervis and Binghamton --   
   > >> extremely curvy and full of speed restrictions, if not down to   
   > >> restricted -- make the resumption of passenger service between those two   
   > >> points to reach New York time-consuming and thus highly unlikely. Has   
   > >> MTA/NJT/PennDOT considered introducing some sort of regional rail   
   > >> service between Binghamton and Port Jervis, however, or even extending   
   > >> the Port Jervis Line at least a couple of stations west?   
   > >> I'm not talking about the proposal to build out to Stewart, which I   
   > >> think is already dead.   
   > >Rail service to Ithaca ceased, I was told, the year before I started at   
   > >Cornell, which was 1968. (It was an unpleasant 4 1/2 hour bus ride, with   
   > >a rest stop in Binghamton. There was a little JFK Memorial across the   
   > >street from the Binghamton bus station. Usually the driver would let   
   > >students off at Collegetown, maybe a half mile walk from many of the   
   > >dorms, rather than making us stay on to the bus depot, which was on the   
   > >other side of town and necessitated a 25c cab ride back to campus.)   
   >   
   > Rail passenger service ended much earlier on the Lehigh Valley, the   
   > major line and would have taken far more than the 4.5 hours by bus   
   > since it was by way of Allentown and Wilkes-Barre.   
      
   My first two years, the Ithaca bus went by 80 and 81 -- I suppose they had   
   to have a real interstate route -- but for my last two years, the bus went   
   by 17 (which now has an Interstate designation for at least some of its   
   length). The first few miles from the GWB were in Jersey, but maybe that   
   didn't count as interstate travel. Either way was about 4 1/2 hr.   
      
   I have no memory of boarding the bus; I have to assume it was from the   
   then-new GWB Bus Terminal and not from the pre-rebuild Port of Authority   
   (as it then was).   
      
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