48:12A-18 - Contract for connecting passenger service

48:12A-18.  Contract for connecting passenger service
    The commissioner is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of this act, to contract with such carriers as shall be necessary to undertake improvements to capital facilities to provide connecting passenger service between the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey and service operated by or in connection with the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (formerly the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad) by rerouting the Central Railroad Company of New  Jersey passenger trains to operate between the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in  Newark and terminal stations on the Central Railroad Company right of way by  utilizing the Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks and the Pennsylvania Railroad  System tracks easterly of Cranford Junction, and to consolidate the passenger  service now operated by the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey and the  Pennsylvania Railroad over the right of way of the New York and Long Branch  Railroad, by eliminating the service operated from Bayhead Junction by the  Central Railroad Company and supplementing that operated by the Pennsylvania  Railroad and rerouting all passenger trains over the Pennsylvania Railroad  right of way to the City of Newark or to the City of New York provided that the  public share of the cost of these improvements does not exceed the total of  $3,000,000.00.

     L.1962, c. 191, s. 2, eff. Dec. 10, 1962.