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Re: HBLR Extension

Posted by NIMBYkiller on Wed Oct 5 15:38:48 2016, in response to HBLR Extension, posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Oct 2 16:43:32 2016.

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Still can't decide if I'm happy with this, or if I would have rather seen commuter rail on it. If no tunnel is ever built to connect the Hoboken division with Manhattan (my idea being a tunnel via Bergen Arches into lower Manhattan) then I'd agree this is the better plan. But if we were ever to make a huge investment in expanding our mass transit infrastructure, I'd rather see the following plan enacted:

1. HBLR redirected via Edgewater Tunnel (serving more of the waterfront development along the Hudson), terminating at Vince Lombardi Park and Ride, or possibly running as far as Paterson via the Cross County Line

2. The current tunnel being re-purposed as a full time XBL with a link into a new tunnel into Manhattan (and into a new PABT)

3. Commuter rail via both Northern Branch (to Nyack) and West Shore Branch (to Stony Point)

The other option I would suggest is HBLR past Vince Lombardi and up the West Shore Branch to, say, Dumont, and commuter rail up the Northern Branch to Sparkill and then via the old ROW that connected it to the West Shore Branch in Orangeburg and up to Stony Point that way. Of the 2 lines, West Shore and Northern, which has the highest population density in the NJ section?

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