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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
I wish this was an even clearer metaphor than it already is.
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For the record, Trump sold the Plaza back in the early 1990s as well as the Taj Mahal and the Castle, so it's no real loss on Trump's part. However the creditors at the time felt that it was more profitable to keep his name than to change it, so the Trump name stayed on the casinos until the very end.
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Originally Posted by summersm343
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy launches project to overhaul South Jersey’s public transit hub in Camden
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced the start of a $250 million project to rebuild Camden’s weathered 32-year-old Walter Rand Transportation Center into a modern hub, with better transit connections and apartments, stores, and offices rising above it.
“This is a city that is constantly reinventing itself,” Murphy said, as the River Line light rail sounded its warning bells at a crossing and a PATCO train rumbled underfoot as it pulled into the Broadway station. “Let’s give this city a transit center that reflects its promising future.”
Rand, named after a late state senator from Camden, is the public transit gateway to South Jersey, linking Philadelphia and all of Camden County by PATCO, Burlington County and Trenton via the River Line, and pretty much everywhere else in the region on 24 NJ Transit bus routes.
And the proposed Glassboro-Camden Line, which would extend light rail service 18 miles to the south, “is something we’d all like to see,” Murphy said.
Murphy said the project would be “scalable” to include housing, retail, and office spaces. NJ Transit, which owns the facility, is expected to request proposals for the architectural and engineering design for the new center in the next few weeks. There is no timeline for completion of what the governor called a “multiyear project.”
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Read more here:
https://www.inquirer.com/transportat...-20210217.html
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It sounds like good news that the Walter Rand Transportation Center will finally get a long due overhaul. I'd love to see the WRTC become a multimodal center with a commuter rail (not light rail) on the top of the center, an intercity bus station inside, and a connection to the PATCO system.
The WRTC already provides intercity bus service and PATCO service but I can only wish that NJ gets out of the "light rail" craze which haunted the early 21st century and provide regular heavy-rail commuter rail service from Camden to Pennsville, Salem, Millville, Cape May, Wildwood, Ocean City, Atlantic City, Toms River, Trenton, and even Newark NJ the way North Jersey gets commuter rail.
There is a market for such heavy rail service in South Jersey as attested to the River Line and bringing back heavy rail commuter rail will help make Camden regain it's status as the "Hub of South Jersey". And if PATCO can finally expand it's system to Woodbury, Deptford, Cherry Hill and Maple Shade, Camden would look like Newark and Jersey City.
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