octr202 wrote:I'll go out on a limb with talk of the mythical DMU again, but I think more effective weekend service really depends on something like that making off-peak service more cost effective.
djimpact1 wrote:
Cost was my main reason for not utilizing weekend Commuter Rail service. I live in North Weymouth, so getting from there to Boston on the weekend provided me the following options:
4) (walk to) 222 bus/Red Line (Quincy Cntr.): $3 bus round-trip & $4 subway round-trip = $7
Choice 4 is literally a 5-minute walk from my house...problem is, bus service is abbreviated at best. Waiting for the 222 to show up can be painful at times, and though this is the cheapest option & easiest to get to, its overall convenience is slim.
Mcoov wrote:Here's my two cents about DMUs.
Any DMU the T purchases is going to be a married set of 2 or more; more than likely the DMUs for the Indigo Line are going to be a married pair of 4 (A-B-B-A). For the medium weekend-load lines (Franklin, Fitchburg, Middleboro) this would be perfect. But for lines with weekend traffic as light as the Needham Line or the Greenbush Line, this will still be excess capacity. Unless the T purchases DMUs a la the RDC (not likely), I think DMUs will still present an issue.
TomNelligan wrote:There would have been a lot more potential for summer tourist ridership to Plymouth if commuter service had been restored all the way to the former end of track near the downtown waterfront district rather than only to Cordage, which is too far from the harbor for most people to walk. The same outskirts-versus-downtown limitation applies to Newburyport, where the big park-and-ride lot on Route 1 is a great station location for commuters but not for tourists from Boston headed for the waterfront.
Los Angeles’s Metrolink $10 weekend pass has nearly doubled weekend ridership since it was introduced in July, 2011.
fitch77 wrote:This article, http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1641165684/ ... ekend-pass, suggests that an attractively priced weekend pass would make sense for the commuter rail
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