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Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Sat Aug 22 09:29:26 2015, in response to Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Aug 21 23:32:57 2015. While the statistics are quite useful and not to be summarily dismissed, I would also like to point out that two reasons people commute where they do are (1) the jobs are there and (2) getting there is within reason. We could also say that few people commute between Suffolk County and Connecticut, so therefore improving transportation between those two points should not be a high priority. However, the #1 reason that few people make that commute is that it isn't practical. Driving takes too long and the ferry is too expensive. If one could drive between Port Jefferson and Bridgeport or take a high-speed train across the Long Island Sound, more people would be interested in such a commute.Whether or not enough people would be interested in non-Manhattan commuting to justify large amounts of capital and operating expenditures to make it practical is another story. I do think that in an ideal world we would have at least one subway line that ran from Brooklyn to Queens to the Bronx, perhaps some sort of outer loop that would also serve as a feeder to the Manhattan trunk lines. But I just spent $20- $50 billion in one sentence, so while I can dream, it won't happen in today's political and construction climate. |
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