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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
I'd like to see S-Bahn levels of service as much as anyone; that's (I thought) the point of this entire thread. But electrifying a line won't magically attract more trainsets and crews to run on it. Lots of regional service in Europe, and maybe some RER/S-Bahn lines, is run with DMUs. Let's start by providing a lot more service, not by stringing a billion dollars worth of wires. We can electrify if the need ever arises.
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and at the rate that Metra works its projects, it'd probably take 2 or 3 centuries for the agency to electrify all of the lines anyway, and they'd find a way to make every single mile of it cost 8 billion dollars.