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Showing posts with label commuter rail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commuter rail. Show all posts
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Did the Atlantic Ticket accomplish anything?

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In June the Long Island Railroad instituted an "Atlantic Ticket" for people traveling on weekdays between southeast Queens and st...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Infilling the subways

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Commenter threestationsquare pointed out that I made an error in the chart I posted about overcrowded subways. He also noted that it's...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Getting into Manhattan

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I've got a whole bunch of ideas for subway and bus expansions in the boroughs, commuter rail and bus expansions in the suburbs, and even...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The expense of East Side Access

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The news is that the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project, initially forecast to cost $4.3 billion and be completed in 2009 is no...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Off-peak service frequencies on the Long Island Rail Road

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I made this map of off-peak service frequencies on the Long Island Rail Road . Click through to see it full size.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Staten Island and our goals

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This summer I went to Staten Island for the first time in several years. There are some things I like about it, but I don't go there ve...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Five rail-trails we'd like to see reactivated

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Last month, the (Greater) Detroit Free Press told us of a section of trail the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (near Marquette ) that had once b...
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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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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Exploring the Death Valley of Commute Options

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Recently I argued that there was a "Death Valley of Commute Options" between transit and driving, If you're sick of the crow...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Death Valley of Commute Options

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On Friday I observed how for a trip from New York to Washington, DC, there are a variety of transit options , from Chinatown bus up to chart...
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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...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Rebuilding better than before

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Since they began to realize how much the subway system had been damaged by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy, leaders have been making st...
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Saturday, September 1, 2012

What is New York's Forest Hill?

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As you may remember, Feargus O'Sullivan recently moved within London , from the "urban" neighborhood Shoreditch (I think) to t...
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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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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Building on our transit-oriented past

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I've been criticizing the Tappan Zee Bridge for weeks now, so it's time to offer an alternative vision. Deactivating the bridge wi...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Wealthy transit riders by county

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Since the distribution of incomes seems to flatten out across a region - or at least, to reach a maximum of about 1 - it seems that the div...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The future of the Suzy-Q

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It's funny, just last night I was re-reading this post from 2009 on the planned restoration of passenger service on the New York, Susqu...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Transportation myopia for commuter rail

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Jeff "Pantograph Trolleypole" Wood has a post questioning the value of building new commuter rail lines, as contrasted with light...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

A missed opportunity for rail-oriented development

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Another of the many things that make the overnight casino bus crash so frustrating is that even if there was no possibility of changing 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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