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#1 Sloan

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Posted 28 August 2003 - 10:03 AM

As construction for the expanding Harrisburg International Airport continues apace, the proposed new inter-modal rail station will not be ready for passengers for almost a year after new air terminals and a parking garage will open in second half 2004. According to the August 29 issue of Central Penn Business Journal, the airport, Amtrak, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and Norfolk Southern have not reached agreements on a number of issues relating to design and operation. One of the sticking points is Norfolk Southern's concern about room for expansion. The freight railroad has long range plans to add a second track to its freight-only line that parallels Amtrak's Keystone Corridor, and it wants to be sure that the new station will leave enough space. Officials are hopeful that all parties can be in accord soon so that the new station will be up in running in time for the start of the first phase of the new commuter rail system, Corridor One, in December 2005. The new station will replace Amtrak's Middletown "shack" and tilted curve platform which aren't passenger-friendly in inclement weather and for use by handicapped and elderly respectively.

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Posted 05 February 2009 - 02:15 PM

From Harrisburg, PA Patriot-News, 2/5/09:

Middletown, PA station may close due to accessibility issues


The railroad station in Middletown will close in about a year if the platform isn't made accessible for people who use wheelchairs.

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Amtrak imposed a 2010 deadline to make all its stations compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
If that's the case, we're going to lose service next year to a lot more places besides Middletown, PA.


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Posted 22 May 2009 - 05:14 PM

Middletown, PA mulls 2 sites for new station

http://www.pennlive....ssible_mid.html An Ann Street site would require a one mile shuttle ride to the Harrisburg International Airport terminal. In addition, access to station platformswhich would be below grade as Ann Street is an overpasswould require costly civil engineering. http://maps.google.c...r...d=us&tab=nl The original intermodal station planned for the airport had its site in the "crotch" of the airport access road. Passengers would ride to the airport terminal on moving belts inside covered skyways. David Gunn visited Harrisburg and endorsed the plan. Once he left Amtrak, the project died of benign neglect. Heaven knows what's going to happen with Corridorone, another languishing project. Sloan



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Posted 22 May 2009 - 07:36 PM

Intentionally building a station on a curve is a poor idea. You're going to end up with dangerous gaps like Metropark. I've been under the impression that the airport station was supposed to replace the current Middletown station. Since the airport station would be a true intermodal center (train to airplane), any necessary bus shuttle should run the other way, that is, taking people from downtown Middletown to the train station at the airport. Corridor One? Isn't that now the Capital-Red Rose Corridor?


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Posted 23 May 2009 - 07:55 AM

"Corridor One? Isn't that now the Capital-Red Rose Corridor?" Well, whatever. Policymakers have been dithering for so long who knows if any rail transit in the Harrisburg area will ever be built. The Hershey garage is now open and that's suppose to be an intermodal facility for Corridortwo. Oh well, maybe the restoration (now underway) of the old Hersheypark railway will occur faster than conventional rail transit. :P Sloan

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Posted 06 August 2009 - 12:31 AM

From Harrisburg, PA Patriot News, 8/6/09:

Easing access

Amtrak plans to spend $35,000 in federal stimulus money to install a wheelchair lift at its Middletown station, even though the station is likely to move within a few years.

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Posted 25 November 2015 - 12:28 PM

Progressive Railroading, 11/25:

 

 
Amtrak station in Pennsylvania to get TOD plans

Pennsylvania's Public-Private Partnership board yesterday approved an initiative to support transit-oriented development at an Amtrak station in Middletown, Pa.

Through the project, a private developer would design, build, finance, operate and maintain commercially viable facilities on state-owned parcels near the station while maintaining or expanding station parking, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) officials said in a press release.

The developer also would be responsible for maintenance at the train station, such as snow removal

 

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 07:12 PM

Press & Journal, Middletown, PA, 2/4/16:
 


 

PennDOT hopes track work for new Middletown train station can start within the next six months, official tells borough council

 

Work on the new Amtrak station in Middletown should begin within six months, Jennie Granger, the official in charge of the project for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, said in an update to Middletown Borough Council on Tuesday, Feb. 2.

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Posted 08 November 2016 - 06:03 PM

Dauphin County, PA Press & Journal, 11/8/16:

 

Site looks nice, but Amtrak station isn’t arriving soon


 
As ground is being broken on a new train station in Mount Joy, the word for Middletown remains “patience.”
 
Amtrak before the end of this year was supposed to start the track relocation work that has to be done before construction of the train station in Middletown can begin.

 

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Posted 30 January 2017 - 09:15 AM

pennlive.com,  1/30/17:

 


 

What's new with the Middletown Amtrak station project?

 

The new Amtrak station in Middletown is moving forward, as PennDOT announced the name of a company interested in the parking and commercial development portion of the project.

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