From my newest (and first!) substack post open.substack.com/pub/adenyaco...
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From my newest (and first!) substack post open.substack.com/pub/adenyaco...
“On the D1, the increase in costs to SEPTA are nearly as high as if every passenger had started evading the fare.”
If you want to know what Joe Rogan’s going to think in a few episodes, keep your ear to the ground for whatever the online right is trying to make stick. They’re calling him the world’s most susceptible person to propaganda.
Bottcher gets it
It got repainted in 2023! Began life as RDG 94102, as far as I can tell built I think in 1970?
It's also covering...Metuchen to Jersey Avenue. that's not a lot of time and distance it's actually on the NEC
People gotta be at their industries to receive and send out cars! And I think industries generally want their cars coming and going during business hours (and as Aaron and I pointed out, this thing is 100% at the whims of Amtrak, they wait for clear openings to send it through)
ME-2 is CSAO! (They use leased CSX equipment, but it's always got a Conrail caboose + employees)
It's not always that late, but basically either it'll come back north before the peak (like around 3 PM), or like 7 PM if they have more work to do (because they want to keep it out of the way of the peak). But having observed this same local all throughout college they keep it outta the way!
The only part of the NEC that still sees really any through freight is down near Baltimore, where NS runs some stuff up the Port Road out of Bayview, which takes the NEC between Perryville and Baltimore
ME-2, local based out of Metuchen that serves some industry near Edison and Jersey Avenue. but that's not the same as through freight which is running via CSAO/NS/CSX (and Bound Brook)
It looks like that because it used to be on a six track mainline
Sure, and then you'd send every eastbound train into a way slower move (and have to upgrade that entire platform, and track, etc.)
NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED
You know the old saying "you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's noses"
well...
Without an expensive overpass I don't even know how you fix it, because that freight track gets used literally multiple times a day (it's all small locals or switching moves, but still!)
because it gets used?
Bound Brook requires anyone going inbound to NY to cross an active freight runner (that I've seen used for switching moves more than any local NEC runner) to get to the passenger platform (off to the right)
Would also like to point out that, when NJT/SEPTA are low-level boarding from the inner tracks on the NEC, there are specific rulebook rules about establishing protection and making sure people won't just get mulched by a speeding train on the outer tracks, they don't just dump people w/o looking
That's not even the inner tracks, that's an industrial running track
How many have?
Contraflow!
MTA Chair and CEO statement on latest congestion pricing lawsuit court decision.
12 train
Trenton is basically identical to how it's been ever since it got high platforms c. electrification. Providence is truly NECIP (and really honestly even post NECIP given it opened in 1986)
hi brynn
I mean, they basically did the same thing do the ECML with the electrification program and the introduction of the 800s bumping away the HSTs and most of the 91s
Toll evasion undermines funding that supports subways, buses, and commuter rail.
The latest edition of The Policy Brief breaks down proposed legislation to strengthen enforcement — and how it would help address intentional evasion.
www.mta.info/article/poli...