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Since its opening in 2002, the New Haven State Street Train Station has served downtown New Haven in only a limited capacity and largely serves as a Shoreline East terminus for CT Commuter Rail. Metro-North trains only serve the station on a limited morning and evening basis, with no midday trains to or from Grand Central between 10am and 3:30pm, no trains arriving or departing after 6pm, and no weekend trains.
The New Haven State Street Station is ideally located in downtown New Haven to serve the neighborhoods of Wooster Square and Downtown, which have seen significant increases in population in recent years. With the completion of the 360 State project, there are now also 500 public parking spaces available in a vibrant urban center directly across from the station, making it all the more accessible to commuters.
With residential capacity higher than ever surrounding the station, and a growing demand for more public transportation options, it is time to bring Metro-North full service to New Haven State Street Station.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bring-more-trains-to-new-haven-state-st-station.html
11 Comentários
Tom (Visitante)
FairHavener (Utilizador Registado)
PleaseFixThis (Visitante)
newhavener (Visitante)
Woostersquare11 (Visitante)
My 2 Cents (Utilizador Registado)
Nowadays, I commute to New Haven for work. As I have relatively irregular hours, it would be highly useful if Metro North trains were to stop at the State Street station at different hours of the day; Generally, more frequent Metro North connections to New Haven would be desirable. At this point, I typically use my car to drive up here, simply because it's too time consuming - and unreliable - to get from and to Union Station once in New Haven, and because I have to wait at the station for and approximately one hour in case I miss a train - something that happened all too frequently in the past.
Thebestconductor (Visitante)
The voltage changes are past the MNR/Amtrak Division Post east of CP 274. There is a phase break in the wire there. The 405 M-8s (54.4% of weekday trains; 79% weekend trains) can utilize the power cycle in the catenary there, the remaining M-2/4/6 cars must move past there with their pantographs down if they go past the break which allows plenty of room for the trains before the break
State Street can hold 3 M-series cars (which is stupid in itself, being not all older M-series consists in service have a Triplet mixed in, and fewer M-2 cars are having B-end thru switches to allow for odd numbered car amounts), most times crews will only open a pair at State Street.
There is no need to turn EMUs, all a crew has to do is change ends, perform a brake test, and depart westward right then and there. And there is just enough room to the east where a train can clear without entering the phase break area, or entering into Amtrak territory, where they can switch from Track 4 to Track 6 (the State Street station tracks, a move I have made before with both EMUs and the MNR Inspection Train when it wasn't double-ended with diesels). And if a train craps out and needs to be taken out of the way, one of the NH Yard switching/yard crews can simply bring up an engine and haul it out the way, or even use an EMU pair to make such a move.
This results in no technical challenges except. The only real challenge is adding the stop to more trains on the schedule.
Joeyalie (Visitante)
FairHavenRes (Utilizador Registado)
PleaseFixThis (Visitante)
They use this as a marketing tool to encourage people to move to downtown. It was a consideration that got me to move there. Unfortunately, I was quickly disappointed. Little effort was ever put into utilizing this expensive to build station. The schedule is also incredibly hard to understand and leaves many waiting for trains that will never arrive.
Plain laziness and more wasted tax dollars (mostly federal).
Kent 14 (Utilizador Registado)
No city money to comfort lazy Yale people!
Union Station is A TEN MINUTE WALK AWAY!