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Re: Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again? |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Sun Sep 6 21:26:26 2015, in response to Re: Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again?, posted by ntrainride on Sun Sep 6 10:44:58 2015. Everywhere is someone's back yard. There is physically NO PLACE to expand the CBE. There are buildings literally FEET from the highway. The CBE/TME should be tolled, which is easy with electronic tolling, and it should be a hefty charge to use it, but demand is mostly inelastic, so while that might work a little bit in the long term, it wouldn't do much in the short term.Unfortunately, the way everything was designed, you have this giant 14-lane bridge that all of the sudden goes into 6 lanes in NYC, where most of the freight coming into southern New England from anywhere else on the planet has to go through, and it's no wonder that the TME/CBE are massively congested. I'm not sure what the share of car traffic is between the TZB and GWB is, but trucks have no good way to get to the TZB on the NJ side, so they're basically stuck going through there. I shudder to think what would happen to NYC and New England if the GWB/TME route was closed off for an extended period of time for some reason. We would effectively be cut off from global commerce. |
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