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Re: Staten Island rail tunnel.

Posted by AlM on Sun Oct 23 10:47:30 2016, in response to Re: Staten Island rail tunnel., posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Oct 19 19:30:26 2016.

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Day saved with tunnel, at least. Multiply that times thousands of carloads per year, time savings add up.

No, thousands of carloads per year do not justify a multi-billion dollar tunnel.

And consider the much cheaper alternative, which is to improve the trackage on both sides of the Hudson. Then assemble a daily train bound for LI somewhere in North Jersey and send it direct to a yard in LI. Get the same time savings for far less money.

It comes down to three possibilities:

1. You don't have enough freight to justify 1 train per day from NJ to LI. Then a cross-harbor tunnel is incredibly expensive per ton sent.

2. You do have enough freight for one or a few trains per day. Then enhancing the up and down route is far cheaper than building a tunnel.

3. You have many trains per day of freight. OK, then a tunnel might be justifiable. But we're nowhere near that yet.

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