UPenn Students Create Ambitious plan for NE Corridor High Speed Rail service

[Nexis4Jersey]

Just straighten the NEC and add 2 dedicated tracks for True HSR and you'll be fine. Theres no reason to build a New NEC......why would you go onto LI? The NIMBY's would kill the project on announcement. As for the CT alignment Amtrak has plans to electrify and upgrade the New Haven - Springfield Corridor and Springfield - Boston Corridor. So in a way that becomes a New NEC , its really a new Trunk system for New England to build off of. 90% of it will be grade separated form what i'm told. This has to many stations like some have said , some of those stations are covered by the LIRR & other systems. Most NEC stations with the exception of NYC , Boston and DC have alot of spar capacity left. Cities centers should be best left for Transit hubs , Not HSR stations....

[FoUTASportscaster]

I see having stops at only the major cities as a problem. I see the Main issue being the airport stops. This is pure conjecture on my part, since there is no North American study that I am aware, but I don't see a whole lot of O&D passengers transfering between the two modes to make up the added cost, both in construction as well as increased headways.

As for the smaller cities, it does make sense. Ten small cities adding 1,000 passengers a day makes a big market. The decreased travel times would be attractive to those types of passengers.

[tigernar]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

Just straighten the NEC and add 2 dedicated tracks for True HSR and you'll be fine. Theres no reason to build a New NEC......why would you go onto LI? The NIMBY's would kill the project on announcement. As for the CT alignment Amtrak has plans to electrify and upgrade the New Haven - Springfield Corridor and Springfield - Boston Corridor. So in a way that becomes a New NEC , its really a new Trunk system for New England to build off of. 90% of it will be grade separated form what i'm told. This has to many stations like some have said , some of those stations are covered by the LIRR & other systems. Most NEC stations with the exception of NYC , Boston and DC have alot of spar capacity left. Cities centers should be best left for Transit hubs , Not HSR stations....

HSR stations should be located near or in the city centre, not outside the towns. The French have tried the latter option for their few "in-between-stops" and it has not worked at all. Brian D. Sands wrote about this in his report "Development Effects of High-Speed Rail Stations and Implications for California". Transit hubs should ideally be located near or at high speed rail stations or other long distance transport modes (maybe except for airports).

[Jasonhouse]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

Cities centers should be best left for Transit hubs , Not HSR stations....

I honestly can't believe I just read that.

Umm, why don't you think that having HSR stop at a city's main transit hub is the most efficient way to tie HSR to that city's transit network?