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Article: Amtrak president to head New Jersey Transit.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 7, 2002
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TRENTON, N.J. _ Amtrak President George D. Warrington Thursday 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 E. McGreevey said Thursday 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 trains that frequently suffer breakdowns.
Warrington will leave Amtrak at a time he says the national rail ...