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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Tue Oct 18 21:22:09 2016, in response to Re: HBLR Extension, posted by Joe V on Tue Oct 18 19:36:38 2016. I have been on NJT trains that take 10 minutes to unload and clear the platforms.Same here (even on a weekend). Part of the problem is to be mitigated with the newly expanded West End concourse. As for escalator reversal, they'd have to always go up outside of PM rush for commuter trains for that very reason. If the other part of my suggestion, designating platforms by line is done, people would be able to just walk down to the platform for their line rather than staring at a departure board and running down, eliminating the need to send escalators downward. Amtrak would have to take tracks 5-8 because of the Empire corridor connection but the rest would be for everyone. They raised the Jamaica station canopies and overpasses with the renovation. NJT equipment doesn't appear to need the wide threshold plates, and again I would be advocating the purchase of new MU equipment to accommodate this idea. Trains going into diesel only territory in NJ would be paired with ones going to diesel territory on LIRR so the multilevel acceleration would be the same as the C3s. All of the obstacles you are mentioning, are you saying it would be more costly to work through those than two billion dollars for more tracks at Penn? |
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