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12 comments on Restoring Staten Island's Rail Connections
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your technical-regulatory positions. True FRA
regs prohibit running light and heavy rail on
the same track. However, exceptions exist and
the most important exception is over in Jersey
where Hudson-Bergen runs part of its way on heavy
rail track.
Second, you posit many neat systems, most of
which would still be running if this were Europe.
But,until you posit a way to pay for it you have
really stated nothing. Staten Islanders have
a thousand reasons why the Ferry should run for
free, why they should have a discount on the
Verrazano, why the Staten Island Railroad should
have the lowest fare-box recovery of any MTA
system. Never will you find a Staten Islander
who will agree to pay a toll increase for
anything. Yes there are many interesting systems
as long as someone else pays for them.
False. The HBLR doesn't even have any track connections to the mainline network. However, the Newark City Subway and the South Jersey Light rail both have some shared track. However, there is a strict time separation there, with freight trains having the line at night, and light rail at other times. That's why light rail service ends relatively eary on both of those segments.
Remember that all other boroughs have free bridges to Manhattan: Brooklyn Bridge, Queensboro bridge and many free bridges between the Bronx and Northern Manhattan.
Just like anything else, these types of large infrastructure projects are financed through a mixture of federal, state and local money combined with the farebox.