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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 12 22:55:32 2008, in response to Re: How the LIRR and Nassau PD Conspire Against Commuters, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jan 12 22:44:36 2008. Actually there's a reason why I'd lean towards the FRA solution in this case. It was existing, operating trackage that was probably working better under the status quo than with service via the IND Mainline. In effect, the loss of direct service to Penn Station made trips to midtown much longer and further isolated the central part of the peninsula making travel to the rest of the city slower.Had the line been fed into the Queens Railway, I'd have less objections, but the Queens Railway express and local tracks aren't exactly amenable to additional service. In effect, I see the LIRR option as a second best for Queens until entirely new higher speed railway trunks are built for the subway. That's still very lucid thinking there. Kudos. CNJ terminal is dead. HBLR won. 8 minute headways at 55mph MAS and a $1.90 fare Not to mention $107 million per mile on pre-existing ROW, and you aren't going any further than Bayonne. Light rail's supposed to be cheap. (Side-by-side commuter/light rail wouldn't bother me, if all things were even, frankly.) |
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