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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Wed Sep 12 16:14:46 2007, in response to Re: Staten Island Railway, posted by Rail Blue on Wed Sep 12 15:15:54 2007. I honestly wonder if the current SIR fleet and ridership levels would rule out LRT.The SIR currently has 16 different trainsets (64 Cars) available, and only 2-7 of them are used at any given time. There's always a slew of trains laying up at St. George as though there's too many trains available. I would think that heavy rail would be the best choice because the Mainline and North Shore Line could possibly split the current fleet, but this is assuming that the MTA orders 64 replacement cars when the time comes around. My other point is ridership levels. This isn't like the subways where the riders come in spurts and what-not. With the SIR connecting to the ferry, the riders come in influxes of large crowds onto the trains. Just look at the SIR PM express trains, which leave St. George jam packed. Then you have the North Shore Line, which is inevitably destined to be packed from Day 1 because it's going to be taking riders the S40/S90, S44/S94, S46/S96 and S48/S98, which already have the highest levels of ridership on SI. If you have an LRT line, it's going to have less capacity and thus..won't be any different from the jammed packed buses we have now. But with a normal heavy rail line, at least there's going to be enough capacity to keep up with the high amount of riders. |
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