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Re: NY Senate Urges MTA To Reject Proposal To cut LIRR service into Penn Station |
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Posted by J trainloco on Sat Feb 11 16:31:22 2012, in response to Re: NY Senate Urges MTA To Reject Proposal To cut LIRR service into Penn Station, posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 11 16:04:30 2012. The benefit is not running a reverse peak train through. I already stated as much.Why would you need to empty out a through running train? A train coming from the NH would be scheduled so that it starts at a point in the east at a time where it would arrive at NYP at the same time a reverse peak train would platform currently. Passengers who want to disembark would get off. Passengers headed to NJ would get on. Yes, there's going to be some dwell time, but so what? Railroads have situations like that all the time. LIRR currently has trains through Jamaica that have high turnover. You build that into the schedule. It IS possible. It has been done before. The principle argument against through running MNRR/NJT seems to be that two governmental agencies are incapable of the kind of cooperation that occurs ALL the time between two freight RRs, or freight RRs and Amtrak all the time. |
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