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Implementing digital signalling on the core commuter lines into Manhattan would alleviate this issue and deliver a broad array of benefits across the wider region. One of the options being explored by Network Rail to enable more trains to run into London Waterloo is using European Train Control System to enable up to 44 trains per hour per track. Of course that would require far more efficient train turnaround, wider platforms and possibly through-running at Penn. Still thought it would be far cheaper than new lines. |
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and two more lines to come under the hudson via the gateway rebuild. that likely needs to happen before any serious thru running push. other than ptc and ctc signaling upgrades i dk about commuter rail, nothing else i don't think, but at least cbtc automation is being overlayed on the traditional block system and is moving along in being implemented for the whole subway system. although found to be hard on the brakes, the canarsie L train and flushing 7 train pilots were otherwise successful and its been expanding. so not bad for by far the most complicated, interlined subway system. also interesting that mta had been piloting subway automation off and on since the 1950s, although it seems they took a break from that from the mid-1960s until now. unions, ha. and since you mention other cities, in the usa i think the path train has cbtc now too, and i know sf bart and at least one line in philly use automated signaling. probably others also do these days. more: https://new.mta.info/project/cbtc-signal-upgrades |
I hope that the part of the Gateway Tunnel project that will refurbish the existing Hudson Tunnels will work on a way to allow the Empire Service Tunnel to be fully double tracked as well.
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For every instance some rando criminal might be persuaded to not do violent crime because of the risk of a packing citizen saving the day is likely 10 instances of relatively banal altercations escalating to deadly outcomes. Scale up to understand the national issue at hand. |
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mta ridership stats --
basically -- subways and busses are currently running at 60% pre-pandemic levels on the weekdays and around 70%ish on weekends. more: https://new.mta.info/coronavirus/ridership |
a big move forward for gateway --
N.J., N.Y. sign funding agreement on Gateway rail tunnel, bridge. Tunnel work could begin in 2023. Updated: Jul. 05, 2022, 9:04 p.m. | Published: Jul. 05, 2022, 6:26 p.m. By Larry Higgs | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Gov. Phil Murphy and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a first agreement delineating how the two states will fund the local share Gateway project to build a rail tunnel under the Hudson River and a new bridge across the Hackensack River, a critical step on the road to obtaining federal funding. more: https://www.nj.com/news/2022/07/nj-n...n-in-2023.html |
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Are they going to re-use the work in New Jersey that Chris Christie cancelled mid-stride? Would ARC have been up and running by now? |
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STAT OF THE DAY { 363 percent } Reports of “subway surfing,” or riding on top of subway cars, have jumped by nearly 363 percent since 2020, according to MTA figures provided to THE CITY. In the first five months of this year, there have been 449 reported incidents of people riding on top of or outside trains, MTA data shows — almost as many as the 461 in all of 2019. |
The video game probably doesn't help.
People, mostly young people, riding on the outside in between cars or even hanging on the back car has been around for ages, probably as long as when conductors could no longer keep an eye on longer trains, BUT the reckless and ostentatious displays of sitting or walking on the roof of moving trains does seem to have increased. You could have gone years without seeing something that bonkers and now it's like it's the exception if you haven't seen these crazy kids doing it. |
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i'm shocked. shocked!
the penn revamp plan comes up $3B short -- in part due to tax breaks given: Railway robbery? Hochul’s Penn Station project may provide $1.2B in tax breaks, but come up short on funds, report finds By Kevin Duggan Posted on July 13, 2022 Governor Kathy Hochul’s Penn Station renovation proposal could give developers up to $1.2 billion in tax breaks, but may rake in only half the funds needed to pay for the transit hub’s upgrades, according to an analysis. The governor’s controversial scheme to collect future payments from developers of a new 10-tower predominantly office complex would still leave the state more than $3 billion short of funding the planned overhauls at Penn Station, a study released Wednesday by the good government group Reinvent Albany estimates. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/hochul-...ion-tax-break/ https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uplo...Penn-new-1.jpg Renderings showing the redesigned Penn Station./Office of Governor Kathy Hochul |
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