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Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station ?? |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Sat Feb 13 17:03:11 2010, in response to Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station ??, posted by trainsarefun on Sat Feb 13 11:13:18 2010. "If so, that would free up capacity at LIRR. MTA of course wants to give that capacity to MNCR. However, NJT and AMTK probably want that capacity, so it will be a bureaucratic fight for LIRR to gift that capacity to MNCR when NJT and AMTK want at least some of it."New Jersey Transit and Amtrak are restricted to two tunnels into the existing station, and the new Hudson River tunnels are planned to go into a separate terminal. The capacity constraint there may be the two tunnels, not whether LIRR is willing or able to sacrifice slots in the existing station. Now, if two new tunnels went into the existing station, that would be a whole lot different. If the new tunnels and terminal are completed, maybe no one will care about vacant LIRR slots in the existing terminal. We should also keep in mind that a lot of what is being built today was planned as much as fifty years ago, in a different time. Telecommuting may not eliminate the need for this capacity, but it certainly will reduce it. Even if 30% of Manhattan commuters stay home one or two days a week, that's a huge drop in ridership. |
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