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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Dec 27 03:21:31 2014, in response to Re: NY-NJ Cross Habor Freight Tunnel: November 2014 study release; Lots of people concern..., posted by AlM on Sat Dec 27 02:59:28 2014. Many of those trains head south on the West Shore line down to Jersey now. Prince Andrew pretty much shut down the operation at the port of Albany. The port operation has now moved down to near Newburgh for now, but a lot of those trains continue on into New Jersey and south.]Right now, things are quieting down as the shippers and refiners are all full up. What I'm concerned about is when the price of oil gets back above what it was and suddenly all those wellheads get reopened down the road. Don't mind me, I'm a future thinker. The real bottleneck for the city is the interconnect with the Hudson line. Right now, things are quieting down a bit and freight is moving. When this all comes back though, the price of oil will be so high that we will want to get even more than we were domestically and we already saturated track capacity up until a month or so ago. There will be more demand for commuter trains and capacity which will mean less track space for freight down the road. The future is my concern here. We really DO need to think about increasing commuter capacity west of the city, and we also need to increase freight capacity as well. And I hope that both will be done separately while we have an economy right now to finance that construction before we really need it. |
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