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Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Oct 3 09:45:59 2007, in response to Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Oct 3 08:51:14 2007. Don't let it remain infrequent service. Hampton Jitney, the bus competition, is hardly infrequent.There's a difference between a busload of people and a TRAINload of people. Not to mention, that the buses serve in a different way, they can go a lot of places for pick up that the trains can't. Trains are banished only to their ROW. It's not rural railway. If it were, then they wouldn't even have erected high platforms. The ONLY erected high platforms because they MTA didn't want to buy new trains that they would have to built steps/ADA stuff into. The problem is the western end of the LIRR has high level platforms. Having ADA cars with ground level access is fine, if ALL your platforms are low level (like many other operations). On the LIRR, you have a mix of high and low level platforms....and it was either install lifts in all the new trains (which have to be maintained, operated, and slows things down), or make all the platforms high. You can't have some passenger entering in Amagansett in a wheelchair, and then being on the wrong level when they arrive at Jamaica. So no, they didn't raise the platforms because it's "so busy" and they are necessary on all the diesel lines, they were raised for that reason....the western end of the LIRR was all high platforms. A station like Mattituck or Bellport hardly "needed" a high level platform for any other reason that for continuity. |
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