A train advocacy group, the New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers, will not appeal a federal ruling in July that deemed New Jersey Transit immune from federal oversight. NJ-ARP had opposed the relocation of New Jersey Transit's Princeton branch, the Dinky.
The group’s president, Len Resto, criticized the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s ruling, saying that it sets a dangerous precedent for the conversion of a rail corridor to non-rail use simply because the land is more valuable for private development.
However, he explained that the advocacy group fears an appeal would hurt other urban rail corridors.
“We are going to live with a legally flawed administrative decision and notrisk setting it in stone in a court precedent that might have greater adverse impacts on public rail corridors at the national level,” he said to Planet Princeton.
University officials have defended moving the Dinky station about 460 feet south to make space for the arts and transit project and to establish a second access road to the school’s parking deck.
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