[quote="Regardie"]There's a lot of documents to digest. There are plans for upgraded ADA compliant platforms throughout the system, replacing lots of 100 year old drawbridges, replacing bridges over the tracks, replacing bridges over roadways, Jersey Ave eastbound with a flyover from a new track and maintenance yard. RVL flyover at Hunter makes the 5 year plan with a drawing dated 2011. Dock flyover for westbound from Hoboken to NEC is fairly new, April of 2019. Lots of expanded platforms on the NEC to handle 12 car trainsets. Oh, and a battery powered engine that could recharge under the wire and then continue on battery down the NJCL.
Ambitious plans, but at least there are now plans that they can then ignore or screw up down the line.[/quote]
The drawbridges probably need to be replaced. Lyndhurst Draw on the Main Line not only should be replaced but it should have a second track. I agree that more stations on NJT should get ADA compliant platforms. The stations in Montclair can definately use high level platforms. For years since the Montclair Connection started, having low level platforms at many of the stations doesn't help with the dwell times. I know that the platforms needed to be low level in Montclair, Glen Ridge, and Bloomfield since the low level Comet Is were still running in revenue service. I think during the time of the mid-2000s, the low level Comet Is were starting to get phased out slowly but surely. Many of the low level Is remaining were often the only ones in trainsets with high level Comet Is. Anyway, I would like to see high level platforms built at the stations that are presently low level on the electrified stretch of the MOBO. Had this happened years ago, the dwell time of trains would have been reduced greatly. Those long push pull ALP consists and low level platforms at stations that are a light rail distance apart from each other don't mix. ALP46 and ALP45 consists have pretty good acceleration with 8 or 9 car trains but it's not as good as an MU. When the Multilevel MUs enter revenue service, I hope that many of them are assigned to run on the electric trains heading to MSU as well as on the M&E where the stops are very close to each other. More high level platforms should be built on the M&E as well.
Jersey Ave Station in New Brunswick needs high level platforms on both sides. It should have been like that since the start. It would not only saffice as a good park n ride lot. It would also help those people who live in the south end of New Brunswick since they can just walk to that station, rather than having to drive downtown.