Is it just me, or is this attempt to squeeze every last second of capacity out of NYP just a temporary effort to keep up with today’s traffic demands? The study appears to be only focused on the present. So when it is implemented, you’ll have a revised waiting space still trying to serve a network that hasn’t substantially changed its behavior since the 1990s. If that is true, the new setup will work as well as a brand new computer, “it’s got the clocks, it rocks, but it was obsolete before I opened the box.”
It's not just you; it's the stated intent. This study is the result of Phase One...which was supposed to be the quickest-possible fix, and confined to the station itself. Phase Two will go for another two years or so, and look at things like operational changes around the entire Tri-State region.
What about run-through trains? I know that there are questions of infrastructure and jurisdiction, both governing and union, but couldn't those be addressed. Very convenient for someone who wanted to, say, commute from Huntington to Newark, etc.
The Phase One plan here includes extending three platforms (of the 17 total) which could *possibly* (they say) permit some through-running before making any other physical adjustments. Through-running is one of the overall objectives of the Penn Transformation team and Andy Byford's leadership.
Is it just me, or is this attempt to squeeze every last second of capacity out of NYP just a temporary effort to keep up with today’s traffic demands? The study appears to be only focused on the present. So when it is implemented, you’ll have a revised waiting space still trying to serve a network that hasn’t substantially changed its behavior since the 1990s. If that is true, the new setup will work as well as a brand new computer, “it’s got the clocks, it rocks, but it was obsolete before I opened the box.”
“Yes, get on with it!” shouts the crowd.
It's not just you; it's the stated intent. This study is the result of Phase One...which was supposed to be the quickest-possible fix, and confined to the station itself. Phase Two will go for another two years or so, and look at things like operational changes around the entire Tri-State region.
What about run-through trains? I know that there are questions of infrastructure and jurisdiction, both governing and union, but couldn't those be addressed. Very convenient for someone who wanted to, say, commute from Huntington to Newark, etc.
The Phase One plan here includes extending three platforms (of the 17 total) which could *possibly* (they say) permit some through-running before making any other physical adjustments. Through-running is one of the overall objectives of the Penn Transformation team and Andy Byford's leadership.