CRail wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:16 am
Regarding the location of Buzzards Bay, I stand corrected, I've always regarded Cape Cod as beginning at the canal.
Regarding service to it; No, what's mentioned in the study is NOT what I'm talking about, and as I said before it most certainly NOT dependent on SCR Phase 2 as has been suggested here. It is said to commence once the new Middleboro station is in service. You don't have to trust my sources, but there's nothing you can quote to disprove them as a lot goes on that doesn't make the papers.
Well aware a lot goes on in the background, but this one is clear as day. In order to initiate passenger service they need PTC. That is going to be a pricey project. As much as you keep saying the Cape study isn't what you're talking about, it has the costs of the infrastructure upgrades needed to run regular passenger service and it costs just under $70M, of which the bulk is signal and PTC work. We're about 19 months from SCR going live in November 2023, there isn't a design job out yet for this work let alone construction and commissioning.
Even if you shaved the rest of the work out and just did the signals and PTC, the MBTA's own forces and contractors are engaged in ATC/PTC work on the North side and also on SCR, there isn't any workforce capacity to install PTC on the Cape Main until SCR goes live. So I see no way of starting Cape service at the same time as SCR phase I. Not sure what kind of service you've heard that doesn't match Alternative 1 in the Cape study, but a shuttle between Middleboro and Buzzards Bay timed to meet SCR phase I service is basically all it is.
Commuterrail1050 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:58 am
Also, my question is how come they can’t start the Bourne route now? How come they have to wait for the new station? Also, how many are they building? Not sure if it’s just one east of the secondary/layover interlocking or if it’s actually 2. Hard to figure out based on multiple posts.
SCR is building the 800' platform on the North leg. The 2nd 400' platform is shown on the Environmental Impact Report but is not in the SCR project to be built yet. It would be built by a different project.
Re-quote of the regulation
from this post a page or two back.
49 CFR 236.1005(b)(6) wrote:
236.1005 Requirements for Positive Train Control systems.
(b) PTC system installation -
(6) New rail passenger service. No new intercity or commuter rail passenger service shall commence after December 31, 2020, until a PTC system certified under this subpart has been installed and made operative.
CRail, ask your sources what the plan is for PTC.