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Posted by Joe V on Mon Oct 17 19:20:43 2016, in response to Re: HBLR Extension, posted by NIMBYkiller on Mon Oct 17 18:08:25 2016. That is 23 TBL and 8 Beiber buses, not 63, between 6am and 10am.Running 2 or 3 RVL trains to Allentown will not put Trans-Bridge out of business. Beiber service area starts deeper in Pennsylvania where TBL leaves off. (They also ate the defunct Capitol Trailways Harrisburg - PABT service a few years ago). As it is, Annandale + High Bidge RVL loadings are about 120 a day. There are Trans-Bridge facilities elsewhere in Annandale and in a sprawling parking lot on the edge of Clinton. Between the PABT buses at Clinton and the additional 7 J.C./Holland Tunnel/Wall Street buses at Annandale, that is about 30 buses, and they are a heck of a lot faster than the train. As it is, the express trains don't wrong rail. Getting them to do so would be very tedious to dispatch and could disrupt reverse peak service. Conrail Share Assets won't have it east of Aldene either. NJT is lucky to get 2 tracks during rush hour, and they often don't get even that. For one thing, the Tropicana Juice train comes up around 7 - 8am. Just today, Suburban Transit started running 4 buses out of Hillsborough for along 42nd Street (not PABT). Their surveys indicate it would have a good following. So those people will no longer have to drive up to Somerville and pay to park and ride a slow train to Newark. |
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