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Posted by Joe V on Sat Aug 29 07:15:12 2015, in response to Re: SI Railway - no new cars till 2020 - NY1 video, posted by WillD on Fri Aug 28 21:18:12 2015. As usually, you are hung up on your idealogy, not reality.Battles with FRA and UTU are battles, regardless of LRT. In practice. your scheme of 4 trains per hour won't work. People are not going to dawdle off the Ferry and evenly distribute themselves between the 2 trains. If the Ferry is late, you can't jam them all on the later train. Northbound, people will load on the train that connects with the Ferry, not the one 10 minutes before. I used #7 scheme mainly as a means to divert people out of congested PABT, NYPS, and Times Square, not to save "5 minutes". I DID say Secaucus - Times Square will take 16 minutes because the Parsons report said so. I also said your LRT scheme AVERAGES 2 minutes over the lenght of the route savings, not 5 minutes savings. No double standard there. Your alleged lightweight LRV for SIR is purely imaginary. It is neither an NJT nor NFTA car. So you can't claim anything about better performance. In case you haven't notice, WMATA does not buy lightweight, aero-aluminum, telescopic junk anymore, but heavier, stainless cars. Yes we can change gear ratios and still preserve adequate speeds. SIR trains need not go 70MPH. |
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