CHAPTER 18

An Act requiring a study of rail passenger service.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. The New Jersey Transit Corporation shall study the feasibility and cost of instituting rail passenger service from the City of Camden to the City of Trenton, making use of existing rail freight lines or rights-of way, with stops at intermediate points in municipalities bordering, or adjacent to, the Delaware River.

    The study shall include, but not be limited to, an examination of the cost of using or modifying existing rail freight lines or rights-of-way for both conventional and light rail passenger service, the feasibility and cost of entering into an agreement with the Consolidated Rail Corporation for the use of the existing rail freight lines or rights-of-way and the location and cost of stations at the proposed intermediate stops. The study shall be completed not more than six months following the effective date of this act.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

    Approved April 17, 1996.