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Posted by ElectricTraction on Mon Aug 31 22:20:01 2015, in response to Re: Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again?, posted by ntrainride on Mon Aug 31 10:29:44 2015. The highways are terrible because there hasn't been a big enough development of transit, and because of freight traffic. I drive every morning with truck draying containers out of Bayonne and Newark. It's completely ridiculous how we don't have the cross-harbor freight tunnel, and all of the freight for most of New England that comes from out west OR internationally has to cross the GWB, Trans Manhattan, and Cross Bronx. It creates parades of trucks that clear the GWB before rush hour and midday.The tunnel combined with an intermodal facility in Maspeth, and intermodal shuttles to Bridgeport, Cedar Hill, Davisville, Worcester, and maybe a couple of other places would really help reduce truck traffic. There is nowhere to physically put highways in NYC, so there won't ever be more than there are today. Transit at least can be run on a few existing ROWs, and improved on lines that run today, but are missing tracks or don't use their full capacity. For the roads, the tolls need to go up, and congestion charges need to be steeper. Congestion needs to be priced into people's living and working decisions. That being said, there needs to be more affordable TOD in the city and in outlying cities with rail service so that people who want to live in dense, urban environments can and aren't priced out of the market into the 'burbs and into their cars. It's hard to get from New England past NYC, so hopefully the new TZB, as big of a debacle as that has been, will offer a better bypass route. That being said, the government shouldn't be paying for that ridiculous boondoggle. It should pay for itself through tolls, which would need to be around $11-$12 as opposed to the absurdly low prices that they are today. |
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