Article: Amtrak President to Leave Post for Top Job at New Jersey Transit.

By Tom Belden and Suzette Parmley, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 8--TRENTON, N.J.--Amtrak president George D. Warrington yesterday traded a job running high-speed trains for one running New Jersey's network of aging commuter rail cars and buses.

In naming him to head New Jersey Transit, Gov. James McGreevey said yesterday that Warrington is "the leading rail expert in the nation."

At New Jersey Transit, Warrington will face a $131 million revenue shortfall in its 2003 operating budget.

The transit agency, the nation's third largest, has been faulted for operating an aging fleet of overcrowded ...

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