| Issue 97 | September 21, 1996 |
NJ Transit a True Believer in Montclair Connection
NJ Transit's director of urban and community affairs told the Star-Ledger this week that nothing in a U.S. District Court's decision last week had shaken the agency's "core belief" that the Montclair connection rail project must run through an historic neighborhood populated mainly by African-Americans. The community's opposition led the Town of Montclair to mount a legal challenge to the project. The rail connection will permit Boonton Line trains to reach Hoboken and Manhattan. The court ruling said that NJ Transit hadn't sufficiently shown why two alternative routes were unsatisfactory.Montclair's attorney said it would be a mistake for NJ Transit to simply rewrite its previous findings to satisfy the judge. The town says Transit's own analyses show that the link could work using other routes, and it wants to be involved when the agency revisits the routing issue.
