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Re: Metrolink riders seek upgrades/extreme commuting |
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Posted by ntrainride on Sat Aug 9 01:51:58 2008, in response to Re: Metrolink riders seek upgrades/extreme commuting, posted by Easy on Tue Apr 29 21:47:38 2008. I know you guys are trying hard and, indeed, I'm pleased as all get up at the revitalization of the California local train services...even jealous at some of what I've seen (well, I've "seen" them only in photos and videos so my pov is admittedly limited) but boy...to this New Yorker, Cali train systems are weird. I suppose a lot of that is the fact that by and large we didn't abandon *most* of our commuter territory passenger railroad lines, whoever the operator of those trains might be. But your side has train lines along highways and freight lines and whatnot, with bare "stations" seemingly placed randomly along the R.O.W.s. I can't even imagine anything on the Left Coast similar to, say, the LIRR Babylon Branch. Long roomy elevated 12 car escalator and elevator-equipped stations, line completely grade separated, street-side waiting rooms and trackside enclosed waiting shelters, twenty-four hour seven days a week service, local, skip-stop and express trains...and this is within a completely suburban matrix, single family house territory, yet each station is located at local Main Street locations, walkable busy village nodes filled with good ol' New York institutions like pizza shops and bagel stores, along with other retailers, offices, other businesses and institutions like supermarkets, movie theatres and restaurants and libraries and government offices. Places you wouldn't mind, say, your mom or girlfriend going to by themselves.Oh, and yeah, every station on the branch has bus connections and taxicab offices, usually located or stopping directly underneath the elevated platforms. |
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