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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat Apr 25 07:52:11 2015, in response to Re: De Blasio Want To Expand The Subway, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Apr 25 02:57:27 2015. 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."I think you misinterpreted the article. Traditional inbound commuters may constitute half MN's daily ridership. It does not follow that half its ridership are reverse commuters. Only 1 in 3 of the non-commuter examples cited is a reverse commuter. One is an off-peak inbound rider and the other is an intra-state CT commuter. The reverse Bronx to Westchester commuter is going from the Bronx to White Plains. That's not a a trip that the proposed East Bronx stations on the MN to Penn Sta would support. They are linking to the New Haven Line not the Harlem Line. The total number of Manhattan and Bronx residents who work in Connecticut is under 10,000 according to the census. That population represents less than 1% of the journey to work trips for New York City residents. Approximately 900,000 NYC residents live beyond 2 miles from a subway entrance. That's the population that should have first crack at new rail services. Blowing money to provide additional access for non-city residents who already have access is a ploy to deny NYC residents transportation funding. |
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