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Oh agreed. ARC was a bad idea all around. And yes, NJT can use these and if Amtrak goes with some sort of push-pull for Empire Service trains, that frees up tracks 5-6 quite a bit. Just saying that run-through would give even more flexibility. But anything that adds more capacity to NYP is probably...

Pretty much all of Europe has built out transportation networks that outstrip ours by orders of magnitude, and yet their environmental policies are much stronger … Actually, they are not much stronger. In many respects, they are a lot weaker. Take their emissions requirements for trucks and tractor...

JFTR, the title is Highway Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel and its author is an urban planner who may have a certain POV on infrastructure. The same machinations that applied to the Holland Tunnel's construction cannot be superimposed over the building of the then-private-sector No...

This weekend, I took New Jersey Transit's Midtown Direct train from NY Penn Station to Dover, NJ. It's 40 miles. It took 1 hour and 45 minutes: 7:11am to 8:56am. That's an average speed of 22.9 miles per hour. That is absolutely ridiculous! The train went through some very nice areas such as Short ...

When was the last time NJT eliminated a grade crossing? NJTR added a grade crossing in Montclair when they opened the Montclair Direct connector. The work on the Lackawanna Cutoff heading to Andover also added a (future) grade crossing due to the former road tunnel being closed and the road re-rout...

SRich wrote:So a long 4 track portion is possible. MNRR should do that. No interference with Amtrak for piece and a good reliable connection to Penn and New Haven

No, the former Lackawanna Lines split off from the former Erie Lines at WEST END Interlocking, which is not publicly accessible. Since they all run parallel now on the former Lackawanna ROW through Secaucus, and a significant length of the former Erie ROW east of the Turnpike is now part of Exit 15...

There was no "lack of place to sit" during PCC days.

lensovet wrote:Who knows, maybe the folks who were saying that LRV operation is loony will finally realize that it's not a bad alternative at all.

R&DB wrote:Any chance of THE tunnel going forward with Trumps infrastucture plans?

When commuters think NJ Transit these days, they think delays, overcrowded and broken down trains, trains smashing into Hoboken terminal...etc. I doubt at this point, public perception could be any lower. With funding reductions, service reductions, mismanagement, decaying infrastructure, and rider...

But that's not any reason why they "win all around" or how they might be "superior". That's just your opinion.

The only official proposal I'm aware of was this . It did not include Hoboken and it seems to not really have been dropped for complexity as much as cost — which I suppose could be the same thing. There was another proposal post 9/11 by a NJ straphangers group to link the PATH train line through th...

The Wall Street Journal has an article today summarizing the NIMBYS objections to the proposed Eastern Connecticut Corridor line change. Here is a Fair Use quotation: The federal government has a $120 billion plan that would cut Amtrak’s Acela Express travel time between New York and Boston by 45 m...

Acela 2.0 will be plenty busy and well-accommodated simply replacing Acela 1.0, so I don't see why they need to do low platform at WAS, and it is too late now: you'll get what you get when the Acela 2s arrive. They're going to be awesome, Thanks for the enthusiasm. I remember similar enthusiasm whe...