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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Nov 3 22:43:22 2007, in response to Re: Staten Island Railway to get New Trains, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 3 17:10:01 2007. LRT is not cheaper. Get that through your head. You want to have to build additional facilities to handle LRVs? plus new equipment specifically for maintaining catenary wire? How about knocking down high platforms to make low ones for your LRVs to stop at?Dude, they'd have to rebuild the platforms and trackways in the first place. Secondly, NYCTA has dealt with even more bizzare parts variability when had the deal with the various generations of IRT & BMT pre-unification fleets along with the IND first generation and second generation fleets. It's not as if the ONIX traction motors used in a LRV are magically different than those used on the R142s. Yes the catenary costs money, but it's not as if third rail is magically free as well. As I've pointed out, the big bonus is in the move away from two expensive crews to cheaper one-man crews. If SIRT were to take the C/Rs on the current runs and make them into additional operators, they could effective double the service that's currently run, and with LRVs they don't have to worry about running around with 300ft of heavy, wasted space... |
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