by Hamhock
Wow, I love the visual rendering of the schedules; it really shows where the gaps would remain. Now I want 3 trainsets and 10 round-trips!
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gokeefe wrote:Cowford,I concur with both of you; they should be attempting to hit all possible combinations of "9am/10am to 5pm/6pm" workers.
I agree. I'm acutally a little surprised by the fact that they are running only one inbound morning rush hour train. There doesn't seem to be any obvious reason for it either. The only reason I could guess would be track capacity restrictions because of MBTA service.
I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to try and hit the peak hours of travel with two trains instead of one.
The people in charge of the Amtrak Downeaster plan to take the next year to figure out where the train service is headed.Here's what it says about the possible locations:
The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority expects to begin a study this spring of proposals to relocate the Portland train station, shorten trip lengths and add more daily runs between Brunswick, Portland and Boston and others.
City Councilor David Marshall said there are benefits to both of the two likeliest Commercial Street sites -- just west of the bridge, near the International Marine Terminal; or at the end of Center Street, near the Portland Fish Pier.