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Depending on where your hooked to the into the internet you could be using all one or 3 of these subways to send data over the Internet via the fiberoptics that are housed in these subways.
There are plenty of stations were I have walked down a set of steps or taken a elevator down from a bridge that crosses to a medium strip were Metro or Commuter Rail has been built like the new DC metro thats going to Tyson Corners or Torontos Subway. With a good chunk of populations living in suber...
I will be there this weekend and I have been by it and I know it was a Rochester Southern Bridge up until the 80s but cant figure out were the main line went to on the west side..its finally being turned into a bike trail as per last summer
I have read a report on light rail that was done in 2000 or so that the GTC contracted out --the result said Rochester was too small for rail transit..I am going to give them a call and see if there is a PDF of the report. Whomever did the report has not seen traffic on hennretta rd
Jeez... tough crowd here tonight....Every time I am in a car on a long drive with friends and railroads come up as a topic they say- "why dont they build high speed rail in the medium strip" So New York State Thruway instead of funding a ditch that no one uses (erie canal) could use its tu...
Seen it done in Toronto,Chicago and the lastest in Utah...Some of the grades in places may be two steep like on some portions of NY states southern teir expressway but its existing land rather then fighting with the freight railroads
You tube of News Crew Tour of Cincy Subway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0qSNmS_Fo&noredirect=1
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Subway/entrance2.jpg
compare this with the Rochester Subway portal near the Dinosaur BBQ
Both were built in a canal bed-Cincy was built in the bed of the Ohio and Miami Canal Both were built for streetcars Both ran into then desirable neighboorhoods--Cincy Central Ave is boarderline and Rochester Lylle Ave is a distressed high crime area Both have existing stations Both were cut up by f...
I have heard nothing about the airline side of Guilford for quite sometime are they OOS
Did hew ever work the Ontrack
Could MARC do the same thing? Could a group of disgruntled MARC passengers file a complaint with the STB against CSX?
Subways or any other transit...This in a city that spends 200,000,000 on one subway station
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/us/ha ... =me&ref=us
"but in reality, who flies from philadelphia to ny, 91 miles? " I take the SEPTA/NJ Trenton Shuffle to NYC. Whats funny is that it takes about the same time to do that then to take a city bus from one end of a Metro Area to another. A city bus from downtown Albany to the Schenectady Amtrak...