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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 01 December 2017 - 10:51 AM

New York Daily News, 11/30/17:
 

Transit experts propose ending NYC's 24/7 subway system

 

 

Imagine New York without its 24/7 subway system?

 

The experts at the Regional Plan Association did, and they believe it's key to building a reliable transit system for a growing metropolitan area.

 

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Posted 01 December 2017 - 10:55 AM

New York Magazine, 11/30/17:
 

Regional Plan Association Suggests Closing the Subways at Night

 

 

The Regional Plan Association, the collection of transit wonks and urban experts who release a sweeping vision for the New York metro area roughly once a generation, have come up with a truly radical idea: Close down the subway from 12:30 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. on weeknights. It makes sense, on a spreadsheet. The MTA could use those hours to swab down stations, repair the rails, and pick litter off the tracks instead of spending a fortune to run trains that hardly anybody rides. That’s how they do things in Mexico City, London, Moscow, and virtually every other subway system in the world. And it’s true that express buses zooming down empty streets would make perfectly adequate substitute subways in the middle of the night. So the question is, can New York live with changing its nickname to the City that Goes to Bed Late and Gets Up Early?

 

That pragmatic but hard-to-swallow proposal is buried deep inside the RPA’s sweeping new report on the New York metropolitan area, only the fourth in the organization’s nearly 100-year history.

 

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Posted 04 December 2017 - 02:08 PM

Progressive Railroading, 12/4/17:
 


Report calls for sweeping changes to New York City's passenger-rail service

 
 
The Regional Plan Association (RPA) late last week unveiled a proposal for sweeping changes to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) subway and commuter-rail services in the New York City area.
 


 
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Posted 04 December 2017 - 02:31 PM

AM New York editorial, 12/4/17:

 


 

Nighty-night for subways? Not in NYC

 

 

 

Ready to dream?

 

And we mean REALLY dream?

 

Picture a modern, wheelchair-accessible subway system, with new stations and new or expanded subway lines that wind their way underground through underserved neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

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Posted 05 December 2017 - 03:11 PM

 

 

Regional Plan Association (RPA) has released a long-range plan for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region that it says ensures growth and equitable prosperity opportunities.

http://www.rtands.co...tml?channel=280

 

Regional Plan Association has an excellent grasp the New York City Metropolitan Area infrastructure needs.  The group's recommendations carry weight, but too often policymakers ignore output.  Then with needs becoming desperate, implementation becomes unnecessarily costly.

 

Case in point:  Way back in 1982, RPA identified fourteen cities* which didn't have rail transit then but would be ripe for such a system. And that each system would "pay for itself" in energy savings, labor productivity, efficient land use, and passenger time savings.

 

*Railway Age June 14, 1982

 

About twenty-five years would pass before a rail transit building boom would start.  Here is the list and what each city now has in light rail or streetcar modes:

Los Angeles —light rail

Honolulu—very expensive light rail due to delay in building

Dallas—light rail

St. Louis—light rail

Louisville—studied a streetcar concept and poo-poohed it

Seattle—light rail

Houston—light rail

Milwaukee—streetcar line under construction

Indianapolis—Rail transit faces a hostile political climate in the Hoosier State.

Cincinnati—streetcar

Columbus—Another state with a climate that is not rail transit-friendly.

Minneapolis—light rail

Denver—light rail

Kansas City—streetcar

 

 

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Posted 07 December 2017 - 12:18 PM

The Journal News, 11/30/17:
 

Regional Plan Association calls for massive rail expansions

 

 

NEW YORK - A direct ride from West Nyack into Midtown Manhattan?

 

The same from White Plains to downtown Brooklyn?

 

The Regional Plan Association, a private but influential 95-year-old urban planning group, released its fourth regional plan today. Among the 61 long-term recommendations for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is a plan that would massively expand the metropolitan area's commuter rail system with new tunnels, lines and stations.

 

"A lot of them are a little ambitious. They sound a little crazy," RPA President Tom Wright said of the ideas put forth in the report which also lays out a plan for the subway, battling climate change and creating more housing. "We want to start this optimistically."

 

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Posted 07 December 2017 - 12:48 PM

 

About twenty-five years would pass before a rail transit building boom would start.  Here is the list and what each city now has in light rail or streetcar modes:

 

Los Angeles —light rail

Honolulu—very expensive light rail due to delay in building

Dallas—light rail

St. Louis—light rail

Louisville—studied a streetcar concept and poo-poohed it

Seattle—light rail

Houston—light rail

Milwaukee—streetcar line under construction

Indianapolis—Rail transit faces a hostile political climate in the Hoosier State.

Cincinnati—streetcar

Columbus—Another state with a climate that is not rail transit-friendly.

Minneapolis—light rail

Denver—light rail

Kansas City—streetcar

 

 

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For Dallas and Seattle, you can add Streetcar to the list.  For Columbus, well yes the state is transit unfriendly, but there is Cincinnati with its streetcar as mentioned, and Cleveland with a much older light rail and heavy rail system..... all in the same state.  For St. Louis, a trolley is under construction, albeit not downtown but in a district a little to the west.



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Posted 18 April 2018 - 06:59 PM

New York, NY Patch, 4/18/18:

 


NYC Area's 3 Commuter Railroads Should Merge, Report Says

 

An influential planning group wants the New York City area's three major commuter railroads to merge into a single train network that could take passengers from the Hudson Valley straight to Lower Manhattan.

 

 

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Posted 18 April 2018 - 07:06 PM

nj.com  / Newark, NJ Star-Ledger, 4/18/18:

 


Could this $71B T-Rex make future commuting problems extinct?

 

A $71 billion behemoth of a regional transit project could solve the commuting problems your children might face three decades from now.

 

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Posted 18 April 2018 - 07:18 PM

The largest concern I have (briefly mentioned in the immediately above item) is the incompatibility of the systems.  Some lines are diesel only, some powered by overhead catenary, and then the issues of under-running third rail with Metro North and over-running third rail with Long Island Railroad.  Standardizing the entire area's rail lines into one power system would be very costly, never mind the new tunnels at 57th Street and Houston Street that pre-suppose that the existing Gateway project into Penn Station will get built first.  It is doubtful that all of the current diesel sections of NJT, LIRR, and Metro North will ever get electrified.  Dual mode engines are helpful --- but that is provided that they are still usable with whatever electric mode is ultimately chosen.



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