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Re: Future rail line on the new Tappan Zee Bridge is a dud? |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Sat Aug 24 13:54:37 2013, in response to Re: Future rail line on the new Tappan Zee Bridge is a dud?, posted by Hank Eisenstein on Fri Aug 23 15:31:42 2013. A bridge is expensive - for now it's cheaper to run ~15 freights a day up the River Line and through Selkirk, or use trucks. Getting trucks off the Thruway is certainly a noble goal, no?There was an article a few years ago about the increase in River Line traffic's affect on all the neighbors along the route. These people could probably be motivated into supporting a crossing that would cut out a chunk of the traffic going through their backyards. Private industry does what is cheapest, not what is best. The gov't should be in charge of building & maintaining future infrastructure and the freight companies should just use it, the way roads work. |
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