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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Sat Apr 22 09:29:19 2006, in response to The LIRR President Speaks, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Apr 21 23:55:11 2006. "-They are actively persuing the third track on the mainline. Many upgrades are planned for the corridor between Hicksville and Queens Village. This includes station improvements, a third track, as well as complete grade crossing elimination in that corridor."HAHA! Take that NIMBYs! I'll miss having the grade crossings around, but with so many trains, they will start posing a hazzard as people will be more and more tempted to go around them. I hope they bring the MAS up there. Good to see they are looking into double tracking the Ronkonkoma. It is sorely needed. "They have been studying ridership patterns, and have gathhered that many people ONLY come to Ronkonkoma because of the service, and they come from other places." They had to do a study to figure that out? I really hope the electrification goes to Riverhead. I don't see the point in just ending it at Manorville or Yaphank. BTW, there is no way in hell they will have a yard built on that property in Manorville, and fortunately, they know it and are looking for another location. Hopefully that added DM will go to the OB line. They only have one now while other lines have 2 or 3. Here would have been an intereting idea. After May 26th, they have a direct from NYP to Montauk every Friday night. On Monday mornings, either extend that 6:21 out of Speonk to be a 5:11 out of Montauk or see if it's possible to make the 5:39 from Montauk an NYP train(I'd say the 5:39 b/c it also makes Hicksville and Mineola). Or maybe, if they were willing to accept the need for more service to east of Ronkonkoma(and I don't mean just to Riverhead), they could do the same kind of thing Fridays/Mondays for the Greenport line. Make the 5:41 into a DM and send it all the way to Greenport instead of having the transfer at Ronkonkoma. Then, on Monday's, flip the 6:56 and 7:04 so the 6:56 is the express. Then just have that express run covered by the train comming from Greenport(5:30 out of Greenport). All that's just a dream I know, but it probably would be used fairly well. About PD tower. MAY 8TH is the official LAST DAY of operation for PD TOWER. I'm told that the tower is too far gone and preservation efforts have been abandonned b/c of the physical shape of the tower. I'm told it will be taken down 3 weeks after it is closed. "Jay, Valley, and Dunton towers will be consolidated. " If this is true, then Chris is going to have to move AGAIN. First PD, then Dunton. I've got one thing to say...Moo Moo "-With the march schedule Huntington has begun half hourly service on the weekends, and Ronkonkoma trains run express because of this on the mainline." ARGH! This has totally screwed me over. Before I had a shot of making the bus because it always takes 3 or 4 minutes to get to the other side of the tracks in Mineola. Now though, I have zero chance of getting it b/c I have to switch in Hicksville. They really should've kept Mineola as a stop on the express. I've heard complaints from LOTS of people about the change. Glad he made a public announcement about photography being legal. And I think it's pretty cool he showed a slideshow about the history of the LIRR. |
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