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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Apr 25 02:57:27 2015, in response to Re: De Blasio Want To Expand The Subway, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Apr 25 00:03:31 2015. When I made the comment about near equilibrium at MN I was thinking back to an NYT series on transit around NYC several years ago. My first hit from a search returned this from 2008"For the first time in the history of the Metro-North Railroad — a quintessential commuter link between the city and the leafy suburbs to the north — fewer than half of its riders are suburban commuters who take the train to Grand Central Terminal in the morning and head home at night, according to data compiled by the railroad. Shifts in regional employment patterns and a sustained effort by the railroad to attract new types of riders and fill underused trains are major reasons. A seat on Metro-North that once would have belonged almost exclusively to suburban stockbrokers and office workers may now be occupied by an immigrant home health aide heading to work in White Plains, a retiree from Chappaqua attending a Broadway matinee or a Bridgeport, Conn., resident going to work at an insurance office in Stamford." So, my point remains, its not your fathers commuter railroad. |
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