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Showing posts with label Metro-North. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metro-North. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2013

We can't depend on the Northeast Corridor

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The big news this weekend is the major derailment and crash on the New Haven line between Fairfield and Bridgeport yesterday. The National...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Rockland County is not being short-changed by the MTA

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Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef has been complaining for years that his county pays more to the Metropolitan Transportation Autho...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

How the high Acela fares save taxpayers money

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We know that Amtrak's Acela and Northeast Regional services are among the few Amtrak services that take in enough in tickets to cover th...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Why we shouldn't extend Metro-North on the Hudson Line

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Mid Hudson News reports that Metro-North is still no longer considering extending service to northern Dutchess County. I'm not sure wh...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

The transportation-land use cycle, illustrated

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The transportation-land use cycle , illustrated by the Village of Piermont, NY and its environs: The road builders say, "Everyone wan...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

About that value gap...

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Ben Kabak picked up on an interesting story: Cambridge Systematics has just completed an analysis of the 2010 MTA budget on commission for...
Saturday, October 8, 2011

Background on the high-income transit riders

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Eric Jaffe at the new Atlantic Cities blog picked up on my last post , and said some really nice things . Between him and a mention on the ...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Westchester-Rockland Pick-a-Mix

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In browsing the Tappan Zee study documents , I occasionally come across a really useful nugget, and the latest one is on Page 7-3 of Chapter...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

A simple solution to the commuter parking crunch

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Today, Ben at Second Avenue Sagas linked to a Wall Street Journal article about the MTA's plans to raise parking fees at its commuter ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Other Tappan Zee Bridge possibilities

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In my post on the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's strategy for redirecting the Tappan Zee replacement and expansion towards transit...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Transit versus highways in Connecticut

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Last week I argued that a two-way dedicated busway on the Long Island Expressway would help make bus service between New York and points no...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

New Haven bike-n-wifi bus update

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Following the comments on SeeClickFix is a little difficult because of all the repetitive "Another person wants this fixed!" auto-...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

The magic of Metro-North

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In my last post I gave the Magic Formula for Transit Ridership: 1. Give transit its own right-of-way and good terminals 2. Make it hard to u...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Greyhound is not a government agency

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New Haven residents, apparently, have spent so much time with government-run transit agencies that they've forgotten how to deal with a ...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Video: Grand Central

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PBS's The American Experience on the construction of Grand Central first aired in February. Special appearance by Jill Jonnes. Intere...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

My head exploded

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Jim Cameron of the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council tells Newsday , "I don't know why we're talking about encouraging people t...
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