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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 Wado MP73 on Sat Feb 18 15:11:32 2012, in response to Re: NY Senate Urges MTA To Reject Proposal To cut LIRR service into Penn Station, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Feb 18 14:27:32 2012. I still insist that if you're going to do the overhead wire thing to Albany, then all of Metro-North all the way back to GCT needs to get that treatment.I absolutely see no reason for that. MBTA isn't even considering getting electric equipment. Like I said, This is an Amtrak project. MNR can decide on their own. The M3s and M7s get pantographs Good luck feeding high voltage AC on DC only equipment. Still cheaper than electrifying, and way, way cheaper than re-electrifying—for fourteen trains per day. There are quite a few HSR lines that were newly built and started off with that level of frequency. By that logic, the US will never have HSR. And how re-electrifying is more costly than electrifying from scratch? Part of the infrastructure is already there and we're only talking twenty-some miles. |
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