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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Apr 22 11:52:31 2006, in response to Re: The LIRR President Speaks, posted by Peter Rosa on Sat Apr 22 11:42:40 2006. I don't know how anyone can handle ROnkonkoma. It's a zoo. First of all, you have to park miles away from the station. The LIRR president says there are (I think) 8000 cars at ROnkonkoma. Unfortunately, I forgot what he said the ridership per day was either 20,000 or 200,000, take your pick (I know it's a big difference, but there was so much information to take in, that I couldn't hold number figures).The MTA knows it's a circus there. That's why they want to relieve the stress by electrifying further on the mainline to probably Yaphank, but even as far as Riverhead is on the table. He made it clear they can do NO MORE at Ronkonkoma, it's at 100% capacity. It's probably way above 100% capacity. The problem is that people come from the Montauk and Port Jeff lines to the ROnkonkoma line. There is no way to stop people from doing that. They are working hard at enticing people to the Montauk Branch between Speonk and Patchogue, by improving service (they are also happy about the new signalling going in, allowing more flexibility in the future), but you can't force people to not go to Ronkonkoma. Also, in my opinion, without the Wading River Branch (which would have been so useful today), there is no room for expansion for all those north shore people either that drive to ROnkokoma. I believe the railroad feels the only way to ease the Ronkonkoma problem is to spread it out towards Yaphank and beyond. You will see this happen. Now that they can not build their yard on the Port Jeff line anymore (that is completely and totally scrapped), it's full speed ahead for Yaphank and possibly beyond. |
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