by njtmnrrbuff
It would have been nice to start thinking about this in the late 90s. It seems that these days, the Dinky gets cancelled because of mechanical issues and with the poor unreliability of the Arrow IIIs, I'm not surprised.
Yes, carter, I hate to say it but down the road, the permanent bustitution would probably be inevitable. NJT, more often than not, runs only one open car on the Dinky and probably that one car isn't even that full. By not running the Multilevel MUs on the Dinky, they can be used on lines with more ridership. Do we want to inconvenience 100 or 1000 people? I'd much rather see the Multilevel MUs operate on lines where the stations are a "light rail" distance from each other. For example, the M&E could use them, especially on any local train. On the Princeton Branch, only running one car open out of the two cars on almost all of the trains is basically transporting a busload of passengers.
Yes, carter, I hate to say it but down the road, the permanent bustitution would probably be inevitable. NJT, more often than not, runs only one open car on the Dinky and probably that one car isn't even that full. By not running the Multilevel MUs on the Dinky, they can be used on lines with more ridership. Do we want to inconvenience 100 or 1000 people? I'd much rather see the Multilevel MUs operate on lines where the stations are a "light rail" distance from each other. For example, the M&E could use them, especially on any local train. On the Princeton Branch, only running one car open out of the two cars on almost all of the trains is basically transporting a busload of passengers.