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Re: Significant part of former LIRR Wading River Branch to become rail trail |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Apr 13 12:39:15 2009, in response to Re: Significant part of former LIRR Wading River Branch to become rail trail, posted by RonInBayside on Mon Apr 13 12:32:28 2009. That's because of a crappy schedule. If every electric departure from the newly electrified Smithtown had a matching diesel arrival from Port Jeff, including extra diesels at rush hour, you'd see more people hop the diesel instead of driving. Sure, if you live at the next station east you'd drive to Smithtown, but froim points east more people would go to their neighborhood station.Again, you are underestimating the allure of the one seat ride. People drive all the way from points east west and north of Ronkomoma because of that one seat ride. People that formerly used the Montauk and PJ lines. Again perhaps less than 5-10% of Ronkonkoma's riderhipe is probably from Ronkonkoma. If they are driving a 1/2 hour or longer to go all the way to Ronkonkoma, they will certainly drive 10-15 minutes to get to the end of electrification ont he PJ line. The service rush hours on the PJ line east of Huntington, while not on the level of west of Huntington is far from bad. Some of the trains are only 15 minutes apart. |
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