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Re: PHOTOS: MBTA MPXpress Locomotive #010 In Delivery |
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Posted by RailBus63 on Thu Jan 13 13:38:44 2011, in response to Re: PHOTOS: MBTA MPXpress Locomotive #010 In Delivery, posted by WillD on Wed Jan 12 00:31:19 2011. I do not mean the equipment is in any way rooted in the 1950s, I mean that the operational concept, the theoretical framework within which the commuter rail's role within our cities, is outdated and fundamentally flawed. Jobs have migrated out of the urban cores, into the suburbs, and our commuter railroads have remained firmly fixed in their focus on serving those city centers. There are some dense sub-centers which could be effectively served by commuter rail. Similarly, Boston's wanton expansion of their subway lines into the inner suburbs illustrates that there is or was demand in the suburb to city commute market which the commuter railroads were not meeting. Unfortunately the problem was rectified in a manner that strangles future commuter rail growth.You are correct that MBTA and state transportation management have been far too fixated on suburb–to-city commuting. Both the rapid transit extensions and the commuter rail improvements have been largely designed to bring people to and from the central core, even though the Route 128 technology belt was one of the nation’s early examples of large-scale suburban employment. To this date, the MBTA essentially considers the job of transporting people from their subway and commuter stations to suburban employment centers to be someone else’s worry, even though the majority of those office parks are located within the MBTA district. |
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