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Posted by Rail Blue on Sat Sep 15 11:15:19 2007, in response to Re: Staten Island Railway, posted by ntrainride on Sat Sep 15 02:00:43 2007. Well, I like the idea of a commuter rail cutting straight across Staten Island, and the locations of the two island stops make sense.The idea was of course to keep the number of stops down to the minimum to make the line attractive enough to riders from NJ to relieve the NEC, whilst still giving a two-seat ride to Manhattan from virtually all locations on SI. Looks like it would use a new Goethals Bridge, I don't really know whether a bridge or a tunnel would be best from SI to Carteret. (Or, in other words, where the portal should be -- the obvious choices are (1) somewhere alongside the NJ Tpk, (2) somewhere north of Industrial Av, (3) between Richmond Av and Fresh Kills, (4) east of the Mall (with the Mall station elevated)). and Carteret is a good geographical location for rail service within the region. Exactly. Between the Chemical Coast and Port Reading lines, it's possible to run trains through to a wide range of destinations. As you probably could tell from the big arrow, I haven't worked out which destinations would be best. The idea of a commuter train using the Fourth Avenue tracks is interesting. I'd pictured them as having the RER platforms an escalator ride down from the subway -- not least to keep the FRA happy... A real "metro" train service. In a universe without cars, say, rail lines would be using routes like that one. I don't think that the abolition of the internal combustion engine is necessary for this regional metro line to work. It would radically reorder travel patterns in any event. The north/south S.I. to Hoboken and the World Trade area line is a good concept too. Well, I'm not entirely convinced that the tunnel to the WTC isn't overkill, but it's otherwise a fairly obvious corridor (and good luck to the S89!). |
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