by Safetee
all they have to do is take a left at new london and those corridor folks can be at worcester faster.
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Safetee wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:13 pm all they have to do is take a left at new london and those corridor folks can be at worcester faster.The name of the game is regional corridors. In terms of Worcester alone, an Inland Corridor provides ~ 7 times the marginal benefit in terms of catchment vs. recreating the old Shoreliner service and, undoubtedly, with the additional markets created by an Inland Corridor, comparative infrastructure costs and travel time, not even close.
Safetee wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 1:13 pm all they have to do is take a left at new london and those corridor folks can be at worcester faster.I think connecting Hartford and Springfield into this is better than the small towns along the New London - Palmer segment. Clearly you are a critic of the New Haven - Springfield corridor and based on your past comments believe the focus should be shifted to the rt 2 corridor. However Franklin county has a much smaller population density and is well served by the rt 2 expressway and would maybe justify one a day. Fixing up the B&M for one a day seems like quite a lot of taxpayer money also.
Arborwayfan wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:13 pm The T and the new authority are/will be creatures of the state, with all their powers and obligations created by state law. The General Court could say that the MBTA must allow x slots at z times at y speeds to trains from the west. It could require the T and the new authority to cooperate on fares, schedules, etc., along overlapping routes, and it could even require the T and the new authority to coordinate equipment purchases: imagine the T and the new authority using at least some compatible DMUs with fully automatic coupling so that a Western Mass DMU (with suitable corridor seating) could come into Worcester and quickly couple onto a waiting T DMU (with suitable commuter seating), and the whole thing could proceed to Boston as skip-stop express, occupying just one slot.That's what I envision as well. Both take their general orders from MassDOT and are given a set of constraints and points they need to abide by, with the flexibility to manage the things that are in their own regions. Rolling stock standardization would be a big upside, and fare compatibility I think would already be on the books as nearly all transit in MA uses Charlie in some form, so with Charlie 2.0 already in development, it would be a natural fare medium.