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| | People in my comments and on social media are taking it for granted that investments into modernizing commuter rail predominantly benefit the suburbs. Against that, I'd like to point out how on the modern commuter rail systems I know best - the RER and the Berlin S-Bahn - ridership is predominantly urban. Whereas the typical...
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| | Amtrak wants to extend three daily Northeast Corridor trains to Long Island. It's a bad idea - for one, if the timetable can accommodate three daily trains, it can accommodate an hourly train - but beyond the frequency point, this is for fairly deep reasons, and it took me years of studying timetabling on the...
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| | Here is the link. If people have questions, please post them in comments and I'll address; see also Bluesky thread (and Mastodon but there are no questions there yet). Especial thanks go to everyone who helped with it - most of all Devin Wilkins for the tools, analysis, and coding work that produced the timetables,...
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| Critics of transit investment - especially rail investment - frequently cite a failure to achieve a budgeted ridership estimate as evidence of the ineptitude or corruption of the agencies planning ...