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Re: The U.S. commuter rail renaissance is just beginning-and the photo post tells us why...
Author: BOB2
Date: 08-02-2024 - 08:47
ROFLOL Wrote:
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> Typewriters??? Only 26% increase? Should be closer
> to infinity if starting near zero.
>
> Actually saw, recently, a bit about a e-ink
> typewriter. Looks sort of like my old Radio Shack
> Model 100 "first laptop" (1980).
He was wrong about 3 out of 5... The increasing suburban population traffic numbers are the only thing he was even close on...
The photo post of the toll gates shows why Commuter rail is coming back faster than urban systems have from Covid. Much of the increase in regional rail and commute ridership coming in the off peaks and on weekends, as the congestion in many urban regions is all day now, with the highest freeway vehicle counts often occurring on Saturdays (the so-called "L" factor-ratio of weekday to weekend traffic volumes) in many regions. You see this in your trip on Saturdays this month from LA to San Diego, where a five-hour travel time is not considered uncommon now.
This is why projects a properly designed "blended" commute/IC projects like Coachella are becoming so much cheaper on a "cost per seat mile" basis, than doing another three or four $10+ billion dollar each rebuild of the 10, 91, and 60, to accommodate the same number of passenger miles of travel demand by "just" adding "more lanes"....
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> Typewriters??? Only 26% increase? Should be closer
> to infinity if starting near zero.
>
> Actually saw, recently, a bit about a e-ink
> typewriter. Looks sort of like my old Radio Shack
> Model 100 "first laptop" (1980).
He was wrong about 3 out of 5... The increasing suburban population traffic numbers are the only thing he was even close on...
The photo post of the toll gates shows why Commuter rail is coming back faster than urban systems have from Covid. Much of the increase in regional rail and commute ridership coming in the off peaks and on weekends, as the congestion in many urban regions is all day now, with the highest freeway vehicle counts often occurring on Saturdays (the so-called "L" factor-ratio of weekday to weekend traffic volumes) in many regions. You see this in your trip on Saturdays this month from LA to San Diego, where a five-hour travel time is not considered uncommon now.
This is why projects a properly designed "blended" commute/IC projects like Coachella are becoming so much cheaper on a "cost per seat mile" basis, than doing another three or four $10+ billion dollar each rebuild of the 10, 91, and 60, to accommodate the same number of passenger miles of travel demand by "just" adding "more lanes"....
