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Re: PANYNJ commissioner pushes Amtrak surcharge to pay for Gateway |
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Posted by Nilet on Sat Oct 3 23:59:37 2015, in response to Re: PANYNJ commissioner pushes Amtrak surcharge to pay for Gateway, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 3 15:54:27 2015. So you're proposing a "no build" with respect to Gateway? Won't help Amtrak even if you forced NJT's Hoboken Division back into Hoboken in totum.Hardly. The idea is that NJ will cough up the money to avoid being shut out of Penn Station— because you're fooling yourself to think that Hoboken can handle a rush hour load on its own. Where's the "temporary station on the waterfront" supposed to be, eh? Just outside the current tunnel entrance. Platform, bus, boat that ferries it to Manhattan. Amtrak would lose a lot of business if they couldn't have through service to Boston these days never mind connecting service to other Amtrak trains, and there would by necessity be no Acela service on one half of the NEC. The bus/boat bridge would certainly be an annoyance if it came to that, but it wouldn't mean the complete loss of through service, connections, or Acela. |
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