Comments on: One rail to connect them all in NY? http://roaringrepublican.com/blog/2009/03/09/one-rail-to-connect-them-all-in-ny/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://roaringrepublican.com/blog/2009/03/09/one-rail-to-connect-them-all-in-ny/comment-page-1/#comment-31793 Anonymous Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:20:00 +0000 http://roaringrepublican.com/?p=534#comment-31793 Like I have said, I was not for the Stimulus as it was and I have great reservations. With that said I live in NY State, there was no way we were not going to take the money and so now the task is to make sure we do it right. The other added benefit to the rent-a-car idea as I am sure you know BP is that if SMART & hybrid cars can be utilized, even just a few at first, it builds a market solution for green car technology. If someone has the cash and is smart to invest, they could create a business model. The more people see these automobiles around the less "odd" they seem to those driving SUV's and sports cars. Hopefully infrastructure will build around them with some gas stations adding charging terminals with potentially heavily trafficked tourist sites doing so as well. Casinos not to mention museums etc. Additionally those traveling from Europe from NY City to Niagara Falls will already expect the experience and if GPS technology is utilized it is an easy way to put traffic monitoring technology into cars for the TSA which has experimented with this tech already. I love the idea of seeing this eventually expand West and connect with Chicago & Cleveland. At the end of the day like you said air travel has just become unbearable both for cost and for the price you pay in wasted time and bad experiences. As long as it is fast, relatively inexpensive and the experience is pleasant there will be traffic. Rail is a proven technology so we don't even need to have that argument. As long as we are realistic about what this could do for Western, NY meaning not running around saying "this will cure our problems" but instead admit "this will help with some of our problems and connect us with the East coast and eventually more" I am for it. I just REALLY don't want to see waste and infighting and a giant mess but I am cautiously optimistic which I cannot say for some of the other ideas being tossed around Rochester. Like I have said, I was not for the Stimulus as it was and I have great reservations. With that said I live in NY State, there was no way we were not going to take the money and so now the task is to make sure we do it right.

The other added benefit to the rent-a-car idea as I am sure you know BP is that if SMART & hybrid cars can be utilized, even just a few at first, it builds a market solution for green car technology. If someone has the cash and is smart to invest, they could create a business model. The more people see these automobiles around the less “odd” they seem to those driving SUV’s and sports cars. Hopefully infrastructure will build around them with some gas stations adding charging terminals with potentially heavily trafficked tourist sites doing so as well. Casinos not to mention museums etc.

Additionally those traveling from Europe from NY City to Niagara Falls will already expect the experience and if GPS technology is utilized it is an easy way to put traffic monitoring technology into cars for the TSA which has experimented with this tech already.

I love the idea of seeing this eventually expand West and connect with Chicago & Cleveland. At the end of the day like you said air travel has just become unbearable both for cost and for the price you pay in wasted time and bad experiences. As long as it is fast, relatively inexpensive and the experience is pleasant there will be traffic.

Rail is a proven technology so we don’t even need to have that argument. As long as we are realistic about what this could do for Western, NY meaning not running around saying “this will cure our problems” but instead admit “this will help with some of our problems and connect us with the East coast and eventually more” I am for it.

I just REALLY don’t want to see waste and infighting and a giant mess but I am cautiously optimistic which I cannot say for some of the other ideas being tossed around Rochester.

]]> By: Anonymous http://roaringrepublican.com/blog/2009/03/09/one-rail-to-connect-them-all-in-ny/comment-page-1/#comment-31792 Anonymous Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:56:00 +0000 http://roaringrepublican.com/?p=534#comment-31792 New York City, Montreal, and Boston are "nowhere"? That's a new one on me. New York City, Montreal, and Boston are “nowhere”? That’s a new one on me.

]]> By: qka http://roaringrepublican.com/blog/2009/03/09/one-rail-to-connect-them-all-in-ny/comment-page-1/#comment-31791 qka Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:43:00 +0000 http://roaringrepublican.com/?p=534#comment-31791 This new high speed train to nowhere between Buffalo and Albany can connect with Buffalo's own NFTA train to nowhere. It's ill conceived and I do not think it will be self supporting; thus it will require endless subsidies to keep running. This new high speed train to nowhere between Buffalo and Albany can connect with Buffalo’s own NFTA train to nowhere.

It’s ill conceived and I do not think it will be self supporting; thus it will require endless subsidies to keep running.

]]> By: Anonymous http://roaringrepublican.com/blog/2009/03/09/one-rail-to-connect-them-all-in-ny/comment-page-1/#comment-31790 Anonymous Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:10:00 +0000 http://roaringrepublican.com/?p=534#comment-31790 I like your rent-a-car idea a lot, and I agree that the train should be fast, modern, and something you want to ride. I think a connection with proposed high speed rail in Ontario, and a branch outward to Cleveland / Chicago would be great, too. The beauty of rail travel, if modernized, is that you bypass the airport hassles, and you are taken from downtown to downtown (usually). Arriving at 34th and 7th beats arriving in Newark, LaGuardia, or JFK any day. I like your rent-a-car idea a lot, and I agree that the train should be fast, modern, and something you want to ride.

I think a connection with proposed high speed rail in Ontario, and a branch outward to Cleveland / Chicago would be great, too.

The beauty of rail travel, if modernized, is that you bypass the airport hassles, and you are taken from downtown to downtown (usually).

Arriving at 34th and 7th beats arriving in Newark, LaGuardia, or JFK any day.

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