From: grammatim@verizon.net
On Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 5:29:07 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On 07.04.19 22:20, John Levine wrote:
> > In article <0i6kaet2nuo82ap7t6kv8m3vm43l2khta2@4ax.com>,
> > Clark F Morris wrote:
> >>> Rail service to Ithaca ceased, I was told, the year before I started at
> >>> Cornell, which was 1968. ...
> >> Rail passenger service ended much earlier on the Lehigh Valley, the
> >> major line and would have taken far more than the 4.5 hours by bus
> >> since it was by way of Allentown and Wilkes-Barre.
> > It's hard to imagine passenger rail coming back to Ithaca. Cornell
> > now runs a high quality bus three times a day and twice on weekends
> > between the Ithaca campus and three stops in NYC, which is open to
> > anyone, buy a ticket online and show up. It's fairly expensive, $90
> > each way (every 10th trip free) but Short Line now has a $50
> > "platinum" direct bus which isn't quite as nice but not bad. The rail
> > routes are all rough and slow.
>
> That's why, AIUI, connecting Binghamton to New York via Port Jervis is
> unlikely to happen.
>
> I wonder about a regional rail service, however, between Port Jervis and
> Binghamton. Perhaps a pilot project, the way that Syracuse did?
I just saw a Treasures of New York program on rail-to-trail projects
throughout the state. Disused rail lines are far more valuable economically
as new bike and hike trails than as revived rail lines. One of the four
featured was the bridge across the Hudson, another is a line in the
Adirondacks where Cuomo's compromise isn't being accepted by some railfans;
I didn't see the first one, on a line along the Erie Canal; and the
Queensway, about three miles of former LIRR, is still in the planning stage.
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