by daybeers
trainhq wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:33 pm Good post; sums things up nicely. Boston to Spg CR will never happen; too far, too curvy, not enough population inI believe njt/mnrrbuff was talking about having the service run all the way to Pittsfield. We'll have to see what three plans the committee chooses to move forward with in the study. But that's for discussion here.
between. Maybe could toss in one or two three car trains each way for day trip service, if that.
trainhq wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:33 pm The Valley flyer is clearly being designed to fail. If they wanted it to work, they would have given it a usable northbound commuter schedule and some kind of marketing like the Downeaster. They’re simply putting forth a token effort to mollify the people who want to see the new stations get used. Once they get the (expected) low ridership they can claim it didn’t work and kibosh it, thereby making the Peter Pan folks happy. Truly sad.I completely agree with this and the rest of the comments on how the Valley Flyer service is designed to fail: from the dismal schedule, to the lame announcement and bungled high-level Platform C construction at SPG that wasn't finished by the time the service started, to the $250k NYC marketing firm. Have they done anything? I'd imagine advertising doesn't work well when the service has a terrible schedule.