The report is out, AMA.
How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor
https://transitcosts.com/north-east-corridor-report/
How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor
https://transitcosts.com/north-east-corridor-report/
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Also confused as to why you don't bring up movable point frogs at all?
As for time, the whole section is slow though the curve there.
"we find a way to save 4 minutes on just the last mile into Grand Central through better system design"
Are you sending HSR into NYG? Or did you mean NYP?
Oh, and upgraded Commuter Rail service for @mirimiri9999.bsky.social
The FRA awarded a $400 million grant for a project to replace and upgrade catenary on 18 miles of the Keystone line. That alone blows up the cost of what's proposed here.
It’s just table after table about useless stuff that we shouldn’t be worrying about like the intricate details of track engineering standards.
Those are real actual questions worth discussing.
Anyone with an interest in the topic can point out that trains in the US stink and we could do better. It’s not hard.
Restricting third-party analysis to the limits of things exactly as they are now is a great way to guarantee stasis or, more likely, decline.
I think things like the now near-universal FRA waiver to use European standard rolling stock is an example of how standards can flex when presented with pressure.
Honestly laughable on its face.
Would suggest reviewing this great piece of research out of UT funded by FRA. Costs of 2-3 million per mile are found to be possible. Obviously a lot of the engagement is with unobstructed freight corridors but passenger doesn’t have the same clearance issues
Meanwhile, all the actual electrification efforts cost much, much more.
Because that's what we should compare to, not the idealized world that has no chance to actually happen.
With the current schedule you have, for transfer at DC:
* Silver Meteor
* Palmetto
* Crescent
* Carolinian
* Cardinal
In addition:
* Pennsylvanian
* * Vermonter
Yeah, that would kill the way a lot of people use them directly from NYC, and it they really don't take up that much capacity on the NEC in the first place.
The real problem is Amtrak would like to increase the frequencies of those, not just run them as they are now.
Cutting back the Pennsylvanian to be a connection with the Keystone in Harrisburg makes a lot of sense as well.
I hesitate to bring it up, but how tightly is the corridor scheduled south of PHL?
(Besides just converting MBTA to full high platforms and electrification)
Do the various MBTA junctions get flyovers?
And the junctions stay as they are - Franklin goes on Fairmount on a grade-separated line, so it's just NEC/Stoughton.
That should be *10.75* and 19.25 min gaps, no?
And just while I'm at it, ”This way, we find a way to save 4 minutes on just the last mile into Grand Central through better system design” needs a period, and "to let trains to switch" needs one less "to."