Railroad Forums
Moderators: sery2831, CRail
Cotuit wrote:sounds good to me - perhaps that is what the person in the other thread was hearing about. To my understanding, the Pilgrim Partnership II agreement between RI & MA ironed out what levels of service we would see in return for building the layover yeard next to 95N and buying the cars and locomotives, etc.mental757 wrote:This is still the plan last I heard - 8 daily runs to the Airport & Wickford.The goal is 14 roundtrips to Providence from Boston with 8 of those continuing to Warwick and Wickford.
Cotuit wrote:sounds good to me - perhaps that is what the person in the other thread was hearing about. To my understanding, the Pilgrim Partnership II agreement between RI & MA ironed out what levels of service we would see in return for building the layover yeard next to 95N and buying the cars and locomotives, etc.mental757 wrote:This is still the plan last I heard - 8 daily runs to the Airport & Wickford.The goal is 14 roundtrips to Providence from Boston with 8 of those continuing to Warwick and Wickford.
Cotuit wrote:Groundbreaking for the Warwick/T.F. Green Station is set for July 17th with a scheduled completion date in October 2009. This will be the closest commuter station to an airport.You know, I saw a similar claim in yesterday's Boston Globe. I'm not sure what exactly qualifies this as "the closest commuter station to an airport," but SEPTA has had a rail line directly to each of the 5 terminals at Philadelphia International since the early 80s.
dcmessier wrote:It's the closest railroad, not mass transit line, a number of cities have subway lines going righ to the terminals. This is an intercity long distance line to transport people to the airport from around the region.Cotuit wrote:Groundbreaking for the Warwick/T.F. Green Station is set for July 17th with a scheduled completion date in October 2009. This will be the closest commuter station to an airport.You know, I saw a similar claim in yesterday's Boston Globe. I'm not sure what exactly qualifies this as "the closest commuter station to an airport," but SEPTA has had a rail line directly to each of the 5 terminals at Philadelphia International since the early 80s.
Why tout this new service (similiar to the Silver Line to Logan, but that's a topic for a different thread) as the greatest thing since sliced bread, as opposed to a service that truly forward-thinking transportation officials should have implemented decades ago?
Cotuit wrote:No, Philadelphia Int'l. has the commuter rail stations at the airport terminals located between the security checkpoints and the baggage claims. Its actually less of a walk to the train station than it is to baggage claim. Not sure how Green/Warwick can be considered closer....dcmessier wrote:It's the closest railroad, not mass transit line, a number of cities have subway lines going righ to the terminals. This is an intercity long distance line to transport people to the airport from around the region.Cotuit wrote:Groundbreaking for the Warwick/T.F. Green Station is set for July 17th with a scheduled completion date in October 2009. This will be the closest commuter station to an airport.You know, I saw a similar claim in yesterday's Boston Globe. I'm not sure what exactly qualifies this as "the closest commuter station to an airport," but SEPTA has had a rail line directly to each of the 5 terminals at Philadelphia International since the early 80s.
Why tout this new service (similiar to the Silver Line to Logan, but that's a topic for a different thread) as the greatest thing since sliced bread, as opposed to a service that truly forward-thinking transportation officials should have implemented decades ago?
And I think it's nothing similar to the Silver Line, it actually runs on rails for one thing.