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Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Ridgefield Park is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the village's population was 12,729,Ridgefield Park High School as part of the class of 1970.

Career

Warrington served with

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, joining the agency on its creation in 1979, rising to the post of vice president and general manager of

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. From 1990 to 1992, he served as Deputy Commissioner of the

New Jersey Department of Transportation The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is the agency responsible for transportation issues and policy in New Jersey, including maintaining and operating the state's highway and public road system, planning and developing transporta ...

. He served as Executive Director and President of the

Delaware River Port Authority The Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), officially the Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, is a bi-state agency instrumentality created by a congressionally approved interstate compact between the governments of Pen ...

and

Port Authority Transit Corporation The PATCO Speedline (signed in Philadelphia as the Lindenwold Line and also known colloquially as the PATCO High Speed Line) is a rapid transit route operated by the Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO), which runs between Philadelphia, Pe ...

from 1992 to 1994. He then served as President of

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's Northeast Corridor Business Unit from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2002, he served as President of

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. From 2002 to March 2007, he served as

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of

New Jersey Transit New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit, and often shortened to NJT, is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the U.S. state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania. It operates bu ...

. He left and with two partners, co-founded a strategic consulting and lobbying firm, Warrington Fox Shuffler in

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(which since has dropped his name, becoming Fox and Shuffler; and has removed almost all reference to him on its website...an ''in memoriam'' item on the "Our People" page remains). He was a staunch supporter, and early advocate of the Access to the Region's Core (ARC) tunnel and promoted

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, as well as the expansion of New Jersey Transit's passenger capacity.

Death

Warrington died on December 24, 2007, after an eight-month battle with pancreatic cancer. NJ Transit and the city of

Hoboken Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...

dedicated a plaza at the

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to Warrington in spring 2008.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warrington, George 1952 births 2007 deaths Amtrak presidents Deaths from cancer in New Jersey Deaths from pancreatic cancer NJ Transit people People from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Ridgefield Park High School alumni

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