From: grammatim@verizon.net
On Monday, January 29, 2018 at 11:33:52 AM UTC-5, John Levine wrote:
> In article <60263814-16ba-4925-a937-845867f7d656@googlegroups.com>,
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >Don't attribute the attitude of the crazy troll to New Yorkers.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >The tunnel is the only rail connection between Boston and Washington.
>
> Well, there's the Hudson tubes
It's conceivable that there's a way in Newark -- or in the mess just west of
the Journal Square station, where freight trains occasionally use the fifth
track at the north -- to get from NJT or Amtrak to PATH tracks (but not that
interstate train cars could fit in the Tubes), but where in Manhattan is there
a connection between PATH and anything else?
> and the Selkirk-Castleton bridge,
I don't know what that is -- possibly the bridge at Poughkeepsie that was
finally repurposed as a pedestrian bridge a few years ago?
> the
> Livingston Ave bridge in Albany, and the Moreau-Ft Edward bridge, the
> latter two used by Amtrak, and if you have a lot of time you can take
> the train from Boston to Chicago via Albany and then back to
> Washington, but I take your point.
Just once I went by train between New York and Chicago (my mother did it
regularly, often twice a year, but I don't see how anyone who didn't have
to would try it more than once), and Boston cars were attached/detached
at Albany.
> Trump's DOT sure is acting peculiarly for someone who campaigned on
> building infrastructure.
Tomorrow he's going to announce a $1.7T infrastructure program -- of which $2B
will be Federal money. The rest will be state/local taxes and "private
investments."
Maybe that means Mexico will pay for it.
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