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Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Oct 3 10:49:56 2007, in response to Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Oct 3 09:45:59 2007. There's a difference between a busload of people and a TRAINload of peopleDepends on the length of the train. If you got the whole railroad electrified, length of train doesn't matter since it'd fill up en route. Who wouldn't want to see M7s in Greenport, after all? 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 There's more choices than that. They could have put in mini-highs, keeping the platforms low; or they could have had what they have in Hoboken, namely those wheelchair lifts (that's how Hoboken is taking care of the ADA thingy without converting platforms from low to high). |
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