What has to change? Higher capacity could be accomplished by adding cars onto existing trains--but then you run into problems with platform lengths at stations (already, trains are too long for some stations on the line), and you do nothing about the long waits between trains...
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Induced demand is very real: where you make a desirable thing easier to access, you get more people using it. For highways, this is a problem, because *highways slow down as they approach capacity.* But trains--if they have good doors and interiors, lol--don't have this problem!
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Increase frequency. Increase capacity. See just how many people really DO want to use trains! We already know they love traveling--our clogged highways speak to that! How will they like a mode which stays on schedule even when it's packed?
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One thing is clear, at least: the assumption that Americans just aren't interested in taking trains is dead. Give us the smallest incentive and we're all over them! What Americans hate are BAD trains: make them great and they will ride!
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All told, I'm very glad that the
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It's time now to start thinking about how to further develop the line--time to start thinking about a future, not very far off at all, when daily ridership at Hartford Station alone exceeds the 10,000 that the entire line carried on opening day! This is the
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BE AMBITIOUS - SEEK EXCELLENCE Overturn people's idea of what "commuter rail" is! THIS COULD BE US!pic.twitter.com/OQJI4a7yR2
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