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Re: ARC to GCT - Why Not the Option of Choice? |
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Posted by WillD on Tue Dec 29 23:14:33 2009, in response to Re: ARC to GCT - Why Not the Option of Choice?, posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Dec 29 17:06:49 2009. It's highly debatable whether they could pull a train into this terminal, discharge, swap ends, load, run the brake test, and depart the station in anything less than 15 minutes. I have yet to see them do that with NYP, the operation is simpler on the crew there. If they manage to pull off anything more than 4tph per track then my hat is off to them, but I strongly suspect they will need to schedule at least 20 minutes between trains on each track. An increase of 18TPH isn't anything to sniff at, but unfortunately it will probably fall short of 'doubling' NYP's capacity by adding 24TPH. And of course any project which merely constructed tunnels and used tracks 1-5 of NYP would be unlikely to add anything more than 10tph to the station. Sure, with a new 6-8 track cavern station and a connector to NYP as the late, lamented plans proposed we might get better utilization of tracks 1-4 and thus might hit 24tph. But again, the 7 train's half billion dollar one station extension rules that out.If you want 36tph we'll need to keep the train going, either on to Sunnyside, or back through a tunnel to Jersey City and a yard in the Meadowlands. |
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