Middletown, PA train station improvements
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Posted 28 August 2003 - 10:03 AM
#2
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.
Story is here.
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.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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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
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 23 May 2009 - 07:55 AM
#6
Posted 06 August 2009 - 12:31 AM
Move to this story.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.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
#7
Posted 25 November 2015 - 12:28 PM
Progressive Railroading, 11/25:
Amtrak station in Pennsylvania to get TOD plansPennsylvania'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
Continue here.
#8
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.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
#9
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.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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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.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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