From: grammatim@verizon.net
On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 7:49:34 PM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On 01.01.18 22:11, Clark F Morris wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 02:38:38 +0000, "hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk"
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 29.12.17 2:32, Clark F Morris wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:28:06 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels"
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 7:45:26 AM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
> >>>>> On 27.12.17 3:59, John Levine wrote:
> >>>>>> In article ,
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> Under H&M, the system had variable fares depending on distance.
> >>>>>>> Also, I believe there was joint ticketing with the railroads
> >>>>>>> who terminated at PATH (Hoboken and Newark), and that on
> >>>>>>> the Newark run conductors collected tickets.
> >>>>>> They were a real railroad and were happy to sell you a through ticket
> >>>>>> to Chicago or anywhere else.
> >>>>> Was the same possible on SIRT, since it was B&O?
> >>>> I haven't seen anything suggesting it was ever connected to the
Mainland --
> >>>> there would have been rail ferries as for crossing the Hudson before
the Penn
> >>>> tunnel and then the Hudson Tubes.
You probably haven't heard that Trump's people are now claiming there was no
agreement in 2015 for the Feds to pay half the cost of the new rail tunnel,
the one that will replace the one that would have been in operation by now
if Chris Christie hadn't had a hissy-fit.
> >> Would they not have been able to buy tickets further afields as the line
> >> was part of a larger network?
> > The SIRT never crossed the Arthur Kill and never connected with the
> > national passenger network unlike the H&M which connected with the PRR
> > first at Exchange Place and Manhattan Transfer, then at Newark Penn
> > Station.
>
> Can't do that now, can you?
Not at Exchange Place, but certainly at Newark Penn.
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