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Posted by trainsarefun on Fri Feb 29 11:54:59 2008, in response to Re: Air Train question, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Feb 29 11:42:44 2008. There is no one like that here so there is no point preaching to the choir.Not quite true. Didn't our Terrapin Station claim that the Howard Beach Branch of Airtrain is not vital or necessary, while the NJT, LIRR, NYCT, etc. systems are (in their entirety, presumably)? Given that, we can argue that there are services essential towards allowing industrial society to continue and they are vital to all the people who would die in the absence of industrialization. OK, so we just rid of passenger rail as the blowhards suggest. The world doesn't thereby end. I'm not commending THAT idea, mind you, but I haven't seen Terrapin Station identify his criteria for thinking some services necessary and others not. You want to trot some term out, ok, but then tell us what it is. The world wouldn't end if tomorrow, service to the Rockaways were entirely abandoned, along with Airtrain. The lives of commuters would become more difficult, but not impossible. That's one of the reasons to support commuter rail and rapid transit services; not necessity, but progressive convenience. I bring up the blowhard's response because I don't believe that Terrapin Station talk of vital and necessary passenger rail is sustainable on even cursory examination. |
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