Northwest of Hudson commuter rail plans
Walden, a small town in Orange County, New York, northwest of New York City about an hour and 15 minutes is considering some (more) downtown revitalization/transit oriented development and a new commuter link via Metro North to New York City.
If actually proposed for funding, it would be competing regionally with some other projects, the most favored at this point being a rail link to Stewart Airport, which I am assuming would link from the airport to the Metro-North station at Salisbury Mills-Cornwall. (This Google map shows the airport, the town of Walden to the Northwest, and the directions are there to point out the airport and the Metro-North station.)
The Orange County -- Hudson Valley area has been the fastest-growing area in the state for a couple years, hopefully these transit-based transportation plans will all come to fruition, including a rebuilding of the Tappan Zee Bridge that includes transit in the design (I am not sure that light rail is a good idea for that corridor, the distances are too far and the communities already too spread out for it to be effective, I think. A well executed BRT would probably be better.)
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csa | 2:49 PM |
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