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Re: What Are the Now-Abandoned Stations You Once Used Regularly? |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Thu Mar 11 02:36:31 2021, in response to Re: What Are the Now-Abandoned Stations You Once Used Regularly?, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Mar 11 01:07:56 2021. One of the busier stations closed in recent decades was the LIRR's Southampton Campus station. When the railroad started introducing its bilevel diesel coaches in the late 1990's it closed some low-platform stations rather than rebuilding them with the high platforms that the new coaches required. Ridership surveys showed that hardly anyone used he Southampton Campus station and it got the proverbial boot.In fact, many students from the adjacent Long Island University campus used the station, but because the survey took places during a break in classes - whether intentional or not is still debated - it showed very low ridership. In a way it didn't matter, as LIU closed the campus several years later and if the station had still been open it would have lost almost all its ridership. SUNY Stony Brook now owns the campus but there are very few students at the site, far too few to support a train station. |
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