and for New York City to have something similar to the Elizabeth Line, to have something that has that economic regenerative impact in New York.Īnd the other corridor of course, was Thameslink, that preceded Crossrail, but that’s the north/south corridor. So it seems to me that this is a golden opportunity for the U.S. Well, I live in the States now, I’m going to be an American hopefully in a few years time and I want to do my bit for the States. People in Frankfurt, people in Amsterdam, people in Paris and dare I say, New York, are probably gnashing their teeth because that was a game changer for London. Beautiful stations, air conditioned, which at a stroke has been a game changer for London, connecting not only the key parts of Central London, but also Heathrow Airport, Paddington, Liverpool St., Canary Wharf and the City of London. The Central Line has been immediately relieved of pressure and you’ve got a state of the art, very high speed actually, through-service state of the art railway, under the wires. and then go out the other side, now they don’t have to. There’s the Elizabeth Line, which I had the pleasure of opening with Her Majesty the Queen back in 2022, and that’s has been transformative in that where people used to have to jump on the Central Line, had to get off at Paddington and then go down to the Central Line and or down to Lancaster Gate and go through Central London to go to East London to Liverpool St. There are two effectively two cross London railroads. But I just feel this is a golden opportunity - and the assembly member mentioned that - and one of the other speakers also mentioned the benefits of through-running and made reference to what happened in London. I should say at the get-go, that I’m not speaking on behalf of Amtrak. I feel I’m an adopted New Yorker, I love that place and it would break my heart to see beautiful buildings torn down on Eighth and Seventh Aves. now, is a city that is so dear to my heart.
I was very encouraged to hear Assemblymember Simone talk about the benefit of avoiding demolishing a beautiful part of New York City, which although I live in D.C. These are luminaries to me in the field of, not only transport planning, but in the particular area we’re talking about today, namely through-running.
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The bulk of what we’re about to do on this side of the TLU program for the next year is figure out timetable coordination for regional and intercity rail, so showing how everything would fit together should take some time, but the question of feasibility has already been answered the work is about how to optimize questions like “where do high-speed bypasses go?” or “which curves is it worthwhile to fix?” or “which junctions should be grade-separated?”.įirst of all I am honored to be in a conversation with people that I regard as absolutely luminaries in the transit space, people like Prof. Then, the Effective Transit Alliance is about to release a long report explaining the issue of through-running, why it’s good for New York, and how to implement it. The Transportation and Land Use program at Marron is about to release a playable 3D model of a reimagined Penn Station designed around through-running and around maximally efficient passenger egress, with above-ground structures like Madison Square Garden removed I was hoping for the model to come out in June in time for the debate about whether to extend the Garden’s operating permit, but that debate seems to be going the right way regardless, and the Garden itself is open to moving, for a price. The timing works well for what I’m involved in.
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They put out the press release, so I feel it’s fine to reprint it in full here with some comments. At an event run by ReThinkNYC, Andy Byford spoke for five minutes in support of through-running at Penn Station.
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