So what commuter rail extensions/creations would be most useful? I definitely feel that if these systems are greatly expanded, ridership would explode. Here are a few ideas for expansion, I feel would be fantastic, by metro.
NY:
MOM rail to Toms River
Extension to Hightstown, NJ
West Trenton Line
Allentown extension via High Bridge
Washington, NJ extension via Hackettstown
East Stroudsburg
New Paltz via extension through Sparta, NJ
New branch through Suffern that turns out to Goshen on to Port Jervis
North East NJ extension through Tenafly up to Newburgh.
New Milford, CT extension.
Torrington extension
Extend metro north out to New London
Re establish branch to Sag Harbor
LA:
Santa Barbara extension
Victorville extension
Palm Springs extension
Hemet extension
Temecula extension
DMU Line from DTLA to Costa Mesa
Chicago:
Milwaukee extension
Lake Geneva extension
Rockford extension
Rochelle Extension
Ottowa extension
Wilmington extension
Kankakee extension
Lowell ext
Crown Point ext
Valparaiso ext
LaPorte extension
San Francisco:
BART to San Rafael
SMART to Sonoma
BART to NAPA
Caltrain to Vacaville via new transbay tunnel with BART
Caltrain to Antioch
BART ext to Danville
Caltrain to Stockton and Modesto replacing ACE
Caltrain to Salinas
BART to Santa Cruz
Philadelphia:
Newtown ext
New Hope ext
Quakertown ext
Reading ext
Lancaster ext
West Chester ext
Oxford ext
Northeast ext
Dover ext
Woodstown ext
Glassboro ext
Mount Holly ext
Boston:
Portsmouth ext
Manchester ext
Gardner ext
Clinton ext
Webster ext
Milford ext
New Bedford/Fall River ext
Hyannis ext
What’s a few hundred billion to make our lives better.
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