NHSL (P&W) Meeting Announced

I think that if the US-202 routing is selected, presenting the at-grade alternative will make elevated a lot easier to swallow for the locals. (We're talking about Airtrain JFK elevated, not Frankford El elevated; it can't be an aesthetic detriment to what already exists along US-202.) If the PECO alignment selected, they might go with additional at-grade construction just as a cost-cutting measure.

CComMack wrote:I think that if the US-202 routing is selected, presenting the at-grade alternative will make elevated a lot easier to swallow for the locals.

When the proposal was floated at an earlier meeting, the immediate reaction from a small but vocal number of NIMBYs was that they didn't want a clone of the Market-Frankford line. This meeting put a lot of emphasis on what the 202 alternatives would look like, including the detailed aerial animation. They also showed a number of similar elevated lines in other cities.

Interestingly, once the pictures were shown no one got on their hind legs in opposition. The questions were all about how to best build the line, not to say it shouldn't happen.