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Re: Could you actually make LIRR and MNRR third rail shoes compatable? |
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Posted by Dutchrailnut on Sat Feb 26 10:58:46 2005, in response to Re: Could you actually make LIRR and MNRR third rail shoes compatable?, posted by Richard Rabinowitz on Sat Feb 26 09:56:54 2005. Amtrak owns Penn station , LIRR and NJT have time/platform slots.When LIRR east side acces to GCT opens it provides aditional trains to Manhattan, LIRR will not loose slots in Penn station. If slots were to open up , they would go to NJT/LIRR on an equal basis, MNCR would not be entitled to those slots, as LIRR and NJT have been begging for extra slots for years. NJT can and will not be going to GCT due to fact there is no room for catenary in GCT, and without yard space the NJT trains would end up in a stubb end terminal with no place to go. New York had a perfect oportunity to correct the NJT situation after 9/11 and the huge hole were the WTC once stood. instead of rebuilding PATH they should have built a new NJT station there and up graded the PATH tunnels. this oportunity will never present itself again. New York needs new tunnels and new Commuter stations in Penn station vicinity but so far the politicians just seen to reshuffle the Deck chairs on the Titanic , by re-arranging the existing facilities. |
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