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Re: Schumer Backs Second LIRR Track in Farmingdale

Posted by Charles G on Mon Mar 19 13:45:22 2012, in response to Re: Schumer Backs Second LIRR Track in Farmingdale, posted by NIMBYkiller on Sun Mar 18 14:28:37 2012.

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The reason patronage sucks ass is b/c the service sucks ass. Electrify to Riverhead and boost service out there, you'll see the numbers go up

You would see the numbers from Riverhead, Medford and Yaphank go up considerably, and you would see the numbers from Ronkonkoma go down dramatically. Many of the passengers crowding Ronkonkoma now would simply use the newly electrified stations instead.

So you would have to build all kinds of station and parking infrastructure at those stations, while all the investment in Ronkonkoma goes to waste.

And in the end, you get very little actual passenger growth. Just a re-distribution of boarding stations. We're talking about a lot of money just so that some people don't have to drive that far to get to a station.

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