I have been meaning to do it myself. If you are here on the weekend, take the train to the Danbury Railway Museum in Danbury, CT and you could ride on their equipment.
I never heard PANYNJ included in funding talks for Gateway so that's news to me. Regardless, this is the agency that spent billions of dollars for WTC and are willing to spend more for their PATH Newark extension. I think funding is the last concern they have.
Well, there is already the Brookhaven Rail Terminal built recently in Suffolk county that handles transloading. However, the main reason for the lack of rail use in the first place is that detour they would have to make in upstate NY. So we'd just mire ourselves in a chicken or the egg situation...
The problem I have with the Jackson Heights and 61St Routing is, it pretty much terminates over the BQE on Roosevelt Avenue and there is simply no room to extend it west unless they are serious about building over the 7 train which frankly would be a heavier burden than what people at Astoria...
Well, it certainly would not be much different to the charge trucks have to pay at the toll. I would imagine the railroads would just do the same when charging their customers. I am not sure what your issue is. The whole point is to change where trucks are used which is to radiate from the city...
I don't know what the stance are from the freight railroads so I won't comment about it other than that I would assume they want to shift truck shipments onto their railroad into NYC.
It is intriguing to read this idea has been around since the 1890's and has been bobbing in and out of the...
The only thing remotely good possibly coming out of this is the potential connection of the JFK AirTrain. I have used the Q70 from Jackson Heights and it can take me as little as eight minutes to get to Terminal B. People who would be served on the Port Washington branch of the LIRR could easily...