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Re: Raritan Valley Coalition pushing for direct NJT RVL service to New York using ALP-45DPs |
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Posted by WillD on Sat May 11 20:50:37 2013, in response to Re: Raritan Valley Coalition pushing for direct NJT RVL service to New York using ALP-45DPs, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat May 11 12:54:30 2013. I've advocated building a single new Hudson River tubeSo the trains get to NYP and then go where, exactly? Have we perfected matter teleportation while I wasn't watching? They aren't going to be able to reach Sunnyside from the south side of the station, and even if they could there aren't any slots make that move. Similarly there aren't any westbound slots as Amtrak has a parade of southbounds which operate right alongside NJT's reverse peak traffic. If you're going to spend the money to dig one tunnel then either make it double track, or dig two tubes under the Hudson. 4 additional stub tracks south of Track 1 at NYP as the most reasonably cost-effective solution. Hahah! You're kidding, right? As Gateway's cost escalation over ARC easily demonstrates, adding additional tracks at the existing platform level is the *least* cost effective method of adding track space at Penn Station. The property acquisition alone is almost as much as ARC planned to spend on the cavern under PSNY. Tracks 1-4 are fairly underutilized as it stands now, so adding two new tunnels under the Hudson would greatly improve that utilization and provide some measure of redundancy while pushing the expensive terminal expansion off to some point in the future. NJT could do a lot to tighten up their terminal operations to fully utilize Tracks 1-5 with two new tunnels under the Hudson before they contemplate terminal expansion. |
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