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Re: Hudson River rail tunnel project has new name, but same concerns over funding |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Sun Jun 17 10:17:28 2012, in response to Re: Hudson River rail tunnel project has new name, but same concerns over funding, posted by Dutchrailnut on Sun Jun 17 09:09:11 2012. Wasn't really intending to address that part, just the notion that tunnel throughput is an issue preventing it...As for catenary, if there is a political will for it, they will find a way to *make* it work. Maybe instead of catenary through the low clearance areas they do some sort of roof-rail, or for park ave only wire up the middle two tunnels (IIRC they have better clearances). As for the Bronx clearance issues... some bridges could be replaced as part of a road work project. For "bridges" with buildings on top, they could lower the ROW... it all depends on how much $political will$ there is. A combination of factors could push it over the hump (Amtrak routing flexibility; NJT's newfound desire to serve multiple stops in the city as shown with their musings on the bus side; Hudson line HSR bringing catenary over there). The icing on the cake is that all those multilevels would be useless in such an arrangement, and NJT would need to go back to buying single level coaches or MUs for it... and really, to make MN's schedule it would have to be MUs... |
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