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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Sun Dec 27 14:20:19 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by NIMBYkiller on Sat Dec 26 17:13:04 2009. There are real capacity bottlenecks. Once you remove/circumvent them (and they're quite easy to spot -- look for the horrible merges), parts of existing subway and LIRR lines have absolutely massive capacity for expansion. Looking at Manhattan below 59th St, there isn't that much extra capacity needed to take a lot of extra outer branches.And commuter rail is really a bit of an oddball mode: it suits Suffolk County (and parts of Nassau County), but it begins to fail when you get the density of parts of Nassau County or the genuine business centers of some importance in Connecticut. If you try to make commuter rail serve either of these purposes, it begins to lose huge amounts of money. |
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