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Re: HBLR 8 Street extension |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Apr 23 05:24:46 2010, in response to Re: HBLR 8 Street extension, posted by JohnnyMints on Fri Apr 23 00:30:50 2010. the LR could be extended under Newark Bay to connect with Elizabethport, Broad Street, and on to Cranford, where an easy connection to the Raritan Valley Line can be made"Under Newark Bay" was a pipe dream expressed by Jeff Warsh, IINM. Given how much HBLR has cost already, how much would that cost? On top of that, the 8th Street extension is incompatible with such a notion, being elevated. Furthermore, NIMBYs are against the idea of turning Cranford into a light rail transfer station (one of their canards has to do with limited parking at the station). Yes, there is still room for six tracks on the ROW at Cranford, but there are high platforms in place that are in use on both sides of the ROW; there isn't enough room to build a platform for light rail where the express tracks used to be if you put them there, and it'd cost a pretty penny to turn one side of the station into an island platform for the RVL and the other side into an island platform for light rail (the LRT side would have to be lowered, since both the HBLR and NCS, assuming some resurrection of the Newark-Elizabeth LRT idea, have low-floor vehicles). There was also some (short-lived?) advocacy group active during the late 1990s known as "CLAANG", who wanted the Newark-Elizabeth LRT extended all the way to Plainfield, based on the four-track CNJ main line configuration. Of course, nowadays you have the complications of the high platforms at Westfield and Plainfield Watchung Avenue, which were built on the roadbed of the former local tracks. An equally short-lived proposal had LRT using the former Rahway Valley Railroad to reach Kenilworth, Union, Springfield and Summit (which was more short-lived than the Union County project intended to rebuild the RVRR from Cranford to Summit so that the Morristown & Erie could get from its home rails to Linden via the former B&O SIRR; only the SIRR was rebuilt, and some tracks were laid on the Rahway Valley in Cranford but no further than that). |
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