Comments on: Thruway Authority Can Help Open Door to Tappan Zee Transit http://blog.tstc.org/2009/01/29/thruway-authority-can-help-open-door-to-tappan-zee-transit/ News and opinion from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:36:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Karl Stilson http://blog.tstc.org/2009/01/29/thruway-authority-can-help-open-door-to-tappan-zee-transit/comment-page-1/#comment-39027 Karl Stilson Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:01:39 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=2635#comment-39027 What happened to the idea that's been going years of running passenger trains on the median strip of the thruway? In most instances I can see many of the overpasses and the bridges have room for track. Some preparation and track laying can be done on the median. The biggest expense may be replacement of the Tappen Zee bridge. At Buffalo one branch can go on to Cleveland on to Chicago. Another branch gos to Niagara Falls on to Toronto. The present freight corridor has too many curves and grade crossings that need to bee addressed. In places like Fairport they would need to acquire right-of-way. Construction of high speed rail on dedicated track could greatly affects lower speed freight traffic. What happened to the idea that’s been going years of running passenger trains on the median strip of the thruway? In most instances I can see many of the overpasses and the bridges have room for track. Some preparation and track laying can be done on the median. The biggest expense may be replacement of the Tappen Zee bridge. At Buffalo one branch can go on to Cleveland on to Chicago. Another branch gos to Niagara Falls on to Toronto. The present freight corridor has too many curves and grade crossings that need to bee addressed. In places like Fairport they would need to acquire right-of-way. Construction of high speed rail on dedicated track could greatly affects lower speed freight traffic.

]]> By: bob http://blog.tstc.org/2009/01/29/thruway-authority-can-help-open-door-to-tappan-zee-transit/comment-page-1/#comment-990 bob Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:39:12 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=2635#comment-990 Strange how transit advocates like getting bogged down in legal technicalities. (Similar thing happened with Airtrain, thus no intermediate stops.) This is a law passed by the NYS legislature...the NYS legislature (with the governor) can amend the law. Strange how transit advocates like getting bogged down in legal technicalities. (Similar thing happened with Airtrain, thus no intermediate stops.) This is a law passed by the NYS legislature…the NYS legislature (with the governor) can amend the law.

]]> By: chuck http://blog.tstc.org/2009/01/29/thruway-authority-can-help-open-door-to-tappan-zee-transit/comment-page-1/#comment-989 chuck Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:03:11 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=2635#comment-989 I forgot to add the right of way that PA wants to use fro Stewart Airport also merges with the Port Jervis line around the route 17 interchange with the thurway. Plus, Plus, Plus all the way. But can you get the 3 groups. NY thruway, MTA & PA together? Have PA work with MTA on right of way & running trains to Tappen Zee. Have NY thrurway just engineer so MTA can run the tracks. I forgot to add the right of way that PA wants to use fro Stewart Airport also merges with the Port Jervis line around the route 17 interchange with the thurway.
Plus, Plus, Plus all the way. But can you get the 3 groups. NY thruway, MTA & PA together?
Have PA work with MTA on right of way & running trains to Tappen Zee. Have NY thrurway just engineer so MTA can run the tracks.

]]> By: chuck http://blog.tstc.org/2009/01/29/thruway-authority-can-help-open-door-to-tappan-zee-transit/comment-page-1/#comment-988 chuck Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:59:07 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=2635#comment-988 MTA currently pays NJtransit to run the rail line to Port Jervis NY. This right of way comes up to ROUTE 287 just outside Suffuren NY. There is a frieght right of way that goes all the way to the Spring Valley line along route 287. At that point the rail is only 3 miles from the Tappan Zee bridge. It would also give direct access to NYC from the Catskills. MTA currently pays NJtransit to run the rail line to Port Jervis NY. This right of way comes up to ROUTE 287 just outside Suffuren NY. There is a frieght right of way that goes all the way to the Spring Valley line along route 287. At that point the rail is only 3 miles from the Tappan Zee bridge. It would also give direct access to NYC from the Catskills.

]]> By: Kenneth J. Vogel http://blog.tstc.org/2009/01/29/thruway-authority-can-help-open-door-to-tappan-zee-transit/comment-page-1/#comment-987 Kenneth J. Vogel Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:27:35 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=2635#comment-987 Who Funds the Rail Bridge on the West Shore Line that goes over the Thruway in West Nyack, New York near the existing Tappan Zee Bridge, or Who Funds the Rail Bridge when the West Shore Line goes under the Thruway near Coxsackie, New York? Either way, It is about a rail line running under Thruway on the new Tappan Zee Bridge in which CSX on the West Shore or the MTA on the East Shore may not have any interest of running new Rail Lines or new Tunnels to the foot of that new bridge anyway. Now with the ARC project NJT does not either. It is interesting you mention airports because the MTA wants to build a new rail line to the Port Authority Stewart Airport, But some proposed study routes are using Thruway Right of Ways. Who Funds the Rail Bridge on the West Shore Line that goes over the Thruway in West Nyack, New York near the existing Tappan Zee Bridge, or Who Funds the Rail Bridge when the West Shore Line goes under the Thruway near Coxsackie, New York? Either way, It is about a rail line running under Thruway on the new Tappan Zee Bridge in which CSX on the West Shore or the MTA on the East Shore may not have any interest of running new Rail Lines or new Tunnels to the foot of that new bridge anyway. Now with the ARC project NJT does not either.

It is interesting you mention airports because the MTA wants to build a new rail line to the Port Authority Stewart Airport, But some proposed study routes are using Thruway Right of Ways.

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