![]() Norwood, in fact, deserves special mention for the fact that the Northeast Corridor actually impacted that neighborhood in a way not unlike the highways – Norwood has been cleaved in two, and everything west of the tracks has been rather unfortunately penned in between I-95 and the NEC, cut off from everyone as high speed cars and high speed trains blow by. Green Airport significantly reduces the amount of parking any proposal for Auburn or Cowesett would require and invalidates the parking component of any Elmwood, Norwood or Apponaug station. Trains are already blowing through Elmwood, Auburn, Norwood, Apponaug, Cowesett… the huge expanse of parking at T.F. What’s needed most now is to have the capacity to use the line to get places other than (in addition to) Providence. My argument is that we already have enough parking up and down the line. ![]() I would much rather we let them continue to keep driving to those stations and parking there than the alternative, which is having them drive to Boston and not use the train at all. They’re driving to South Attleboro and parking there, or they’re driving to Providence and parking there. But I was at the hearing on this and I pointed out then and I will point it out again now – the vast majority of the people who are going to drive to the train are doing so now. Mind you, that doesn’t mean “make every stop into a park-and-ride.” Andrew has a good point, and is right to be nervous about the amount of parking VHB seems to think Pawtucket needs. Park and rides aren’t inherently bad, and like it or not, there is going to be a real need for some parking at some stops well into the future. ![]() #2, per Edgar: Probably nobody walks to South Attleboro, but I invite you to take a look at the tremendous number of cars that are parked there – plenty with Rhode Island plates, in fact! I’d say South Attleboro is doing a fantastic job serving as a park and ride – without it, these cars would be driving to another stop on the line or, more likely, just driving straight to their destination. They also don’t have any real shortage of parking at any of the stations on the New Haven Line, which leads me to… ![]() They may have problems, but “too many stops” doesn’t appear to be one of them – and if they can make it work, so can we. #1, per Tony P: Pelham and New Rochelle are 1.5 miles apart, New Rochelle and Larchmont are 2.1 miles apart, Larchmont and Mamaroneck are 1.8 miles apart… I could go right down the New Haven Line listing all the stop spacings that are 3 miles or less to make this point, but it’s probably easier to list all of the stop spacings that aren’t – not counting anything inside of New York City itself, the only stop spacings longer than 3 miles are between Stamford and Noroton Heights (3.2 miles apart), between Fairfield Metro and Bridgeport (3.1 miles apart), and every stop between Bridgeport and West Haven (when it opens) is more than 3 miles apart.Īnd yet! The New Haven Line is the most heavily ridden portion of the entire Northeast Corridor – even at its absolute worst, Metro-North blows the MBCR out of the water on every single metric you or I could possibly name. Two points that I think need to be made with regards to Pawtucket/South Attleboro.
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