On December 5, 2011, DRPA/PATCO was pleased to announce John Rink as the new General Manager. John Rink has served in many capacities during a 19 year career with the DRPA and PATCO. John is looking forward to moving PATCO forward as a premier Transit System and making sure we continue to provide excellent service. "I am both pleased and honored to have been given this opportunity to lead PATCO into the future." says John. Go to our website to see the complete message from our new General Manager.

They are as promised - nothing but the stainless steel shell of what once was a PATCO High Speed Line train car. Actually six rail car shells. In an update delivered Wednesday to the Operations and Maintenance Committee of the Delaware River Port Authority's commissioners, agency Chief Engineer Michael Venuto showed off photos of the work being performed by Alstom Transport. The New York firm is overhauling PATCO's 120 car fleet - all of which pre-date 1975. To date, six cars have been totally reduced to their steel shells while two others are nearing that point Alstom, which has a $194 million contract to perform the work, will then rebuild the cars. Venuto noted there are approximately 13 different systems for each car - such as heating, cooling and ventilation - that have to be designed. Two systems have been designed, seven are at 90 percent of review and four are at 60 percent of review. It has been nearly a year since the first rail cars were delivered to New York. There are 26 cars at present. The first of the rebuilt cars are due back to PATCO in March 2013. The rest of the fleet will be rebuilt through early 2016. PATCO has spent $13 million to date, about 7 percent of the contract cost, on the project.