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Originally Posted by TowerDude
Hudson Line Service Improvements:
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Don't you love jpegs and gifs with improvement proposals that ignore how much it will cost? The costs can be found in the link below.
https://www.esparail.org/resources/h...line-projects/
"Harmon to Poughkeepsie Signal System
Cost: $142 million (Funded in 2021)
Empire Connection Double Track: from CP Inwood (MP 9) across the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge to CP 12 on Metro-North’s Hudson Line.
Cost: $62.5 million (Estimate in 2005 dollars)
Tarrytown Pocket Track
Cost: $47.6 million (Estimate in 2005 dollars)
New Third Mainline Track MP 53 to MP 63
Cost: $70.3 million (Estimate in 2005 dollars)
New Third Mainline Track MP 72 to MP 75
Cost: $6.5 million (Estimate in 2005 dollars)
Poughkeepsie Mainline and Yard Improvements
Cost: $39.7 million (Estimate in 2005 dollars)
Three New Control Points at MP 82, MP 99, and MP 136.
Cost: $26.5 million (Estimate in 2005 dollars)
Hudson Station Improvements
Cost: $6.6 million (Estimate in 2005 dollars)
Livingston Avenue Bridge
Cost: +$500.0 million (Estimate based on the Raritan River Bridge replacement project for NJ Transit)
Increase FRA Track Class MP 75 to MP 114
Cost: ?"
Subtotal for Hudson Line = $839.2 (+) Millions
Note, the costs are listed directly before the map used in the post above and many of the estimates go back as far as 2005. Why so long? Because that is how long this EIS study has taken - yes well over 17 years.....
Worse yet, after spending all this money for all the improvement projects for the Hudson Line, it is only going to save the trains 20 minutes of travel time, from 2 hours and 25 minutes to 2 hours and 5 minutes.