by Pensyfan19
Anyone have further information about this proposal? It was made by the RPA back in 2018 and even made the news once.
https://www.progressiverailroading.com/ ... ice--54482
Some key points of the project include:
-a merger between the LIRR, Metro North, and NJT.
-Manhattan Spine: an underground tunnel adjacent to the Metro North Main line running from the Bronx through Manhattan to Atlantic Terminal Brooklyn.
-Jersey Loop: a loop running from Hoboken through the Manhattan Spine and back out to Bergenline, NJ along a restored West Shore Line and Susquehanna and Western RR passenger line
-conversion of the West Hempstead and Oyster Bay branches into a through light rail line with a loop service near Hempstead, as well as conversion of the Waterbury branch to light rail.
-MOM alignment in central New Jersey (Monmouth Junction Alignment, Matawan Alignment, and Red Bank Alignment)
-Connecticut Metro Express: an express service from Grand Central and Penn until Port Chester where it stops at all local stops in Connecticut.
-Intercity Express: express service on corridors such as the Northeast Corridor (Philadelphia-Trenton-NYC-Stamford-New Haven-Hartford), Trenton to Ronkonkoma, Albany to Ronkonkoma, Albany to Grand Central Station, and Grand Central to New Haven and Hartford.
-JFK connector: a branch from the Atlantic Terminal Brooklyn line to JFK/Aqueduct Racetrack via the Rockaway Beach Branch.
-restoration of numerous stations including Highbridge (Metro North), Elmhurst, Corona, South Jamaica, Buffalo Ave, Woodhaven, Green Acre and Mill Neck (LIRR).
-new yards in Huntington, Hicksville, Western Queens (probably Sunnyside expanded), Green Acres, Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack, Nassau Area?(not specified in proposal, near Hampstead) (LIRR); Port Chester, Tarrytown former GM Plant, Mt. Vernon West, Yonkers Kawasaki Plant, West Farms Bus Depot (Metro North); Palisades Center-West Nyack, Paterson, Summit, Plainfield, Perth Amboy, West End (near Hoboken), and North Bergen-Ridgefield (NJT).
For more information about this interesting proposal, please view the full pdf below.
http://library.rpa.org/pdf/RPA-Trans-Re ... -T-REX.pdf
https://www.progressiverailroading.com/ ... ice--54482
Some key points of the project include:
-a merger between the LIRR, Metro North, and NJT.
-Manhattan Spine: an underground tunnel adjacent to the Metro North Main line running from the Bronx through Manhattan to Atlantic Terminal Brooklyn.
-Jersey Loop: a loop running from Hoboken through the Manhattan Spine and back out to Bergenline, NJ along a restored West Shore Line and Susquehanna and Western RR passenger line
-conversion of the West Hempstead and Oyster Bay branches into a through light rail line with a loop service near Hempstead, as well as conversion of the Waterbury branch to light rail.
-MOM alignment in central New Jersey (Monmouth Junction Alignment, Matawan Alignment, and Red Bank Alignment)
-Connecticut Metro Express: an express service from Grand Central and Penn until Port Chester where it stops at all local stops in Connecticut.
-Intercity Express: express service on corridors such as the Northeast Corridor (Philadelphia-Trenton-NYC-Stamford-New Haven-Hartford), Trenton to Ronkonkoma, Albany to Ronkonkoma, Albany to Grand Central Station, and Grand Central to New Haven and Hartford.
-JFK connector: a branch from the Atlantic Terminal Brooklyn line to JFK/Aqueduct Racetrack via the Rockaway Beach Branch.
-restoration of numerous stations including Highbridge (Metro North), Elmhurst, Corona, South Jamaica, Buffalo Ave, Woodhaven, Green Acre and Mill Neck (LIRR).
-new yards in Huntington, Hicksville, Western Queens (probably Sunnyside expanded), Green Acres, Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack, Nassau Area?(not specified in proposal, near Hampstead) (LIRR); Port Chester, Tarrytown former GM Plant, Mt. Vernon West, Yonkers Kawasaki Plant, West Farms Bus Depot (Metro North); Palisades Center-West Nyack, Paterson, Summit, Plainfield, Perth Amboy, West End (near Hoboken), and North Bergen-Ridgefield (NJT).
For more information about this interesting proposal, please view the full pdf below.
http://library.rpa.org/pdf/RPA-Trans-Re ... -T-REX.pdf
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