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Originally Posted by freerover
None of the 4 proposed additional Red Line stations are in the current wave of consideration for construction.
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Well, yes and no.
I agree it's sort of confusing. None of the 4 stations proposals was advanced
as part of Project Connect 2.0.
And yet, the Broadmoor station is actually _further_ along than anything in project connect, as it's actually in CapMetro's budget.
I think what that basically means is that Broadmoor station will or won't happen based on purely on Brandywine. CapMetro isn't going to independently construct it. Relocating Kramer to south of Braker I assume is the same.
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Originally Posted by freerover
The Howard station isn't too far away from the MLS site
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What MLS site? Nothing that's been proposed is anywhere near Howard Lane.
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Originally Posted by freerover
The big catch here is that building a new station that would see very high usage at Broadmoor or a relocated Kramer station could mean more passing tracks and trains will be needed. The new passing tracks they are building now are just at 3 current stations for about 2 miles of total rail. There is a proposal to build 8 more miles of passing track.
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Do you have a source on that proposal? I haven't heard anything about any new intermediate proposals between the new sidings (paid for) and double tracking.
Also, bear in mind in that's 3 _additional_ stations getting passing tracks. Some (including Kramer) already had them.
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Originally Posted by freerover
The current track expansion and additional trains will reduce frequency of trains from 35 minutes to 15 minutes but that sounds like it will only help serve existing usage which is standing room only at rush hour. Any combination of adding the Broadmoor (Domain) and Hancock stations or relocating the Highland and Kramer stations could require the additional 8 miles of passing track to be constructed as well.
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It seems likely that after getting down to 15 minute frequencies, the next step would be "two car" service at the peak of those 15 minutes frequencies (an extension of what they're doing this month). So two cars in quick succession, 15 minutes, another two cars, etc.
That's basically 4X their current (or prior to this month) capacity.
That might require a few more DMUs, but (potentially?) not any more track.
They also might look at actually coupled DMUs as the next step too (which probably requires station work, but again (might) not require additional track depending on the existing length of passing sidings.