Started looking into this subject. Was curious if large shipping container ship can cross the Long Island Sound? A solution I was thinking of was turning Rikers island (proposing to be closed) into a new container port, building a smaller bridge to connect with Hell Gate, and bringing freight on to Long Island that way. After the stop over in Rikers, a container ship can go down the Hudson to the of Newark.
Problem with trucks on Long Island is most east to west highways are parkways which only allow cars, while the only highway that allows trucks are the LIE (i-495), and Sunrise Highway, which is a standard 3-lane road before becoming a highway further out east. That means there's a lot of congestion from trucks on standard roads.
Just to note, the 75% reduction in capacity is only if they were to alternate train directions in the one tunnel. The railroads use this figure to scare up support even though it is a lie. On weekends the current schedule allows for closing of a single tunnel for short-term repairs. They convoy trains for 25 minutes and then switch directions. It takes 5 minutes to clear the tunnel. In this way, they can keep hourly service with a 5/12 capacity. The bigger issue with not being able to close a tunnel for long term repairs is the open tunnel would have to remain open 24/7 without failures, which for the first half of the project would be impossible. (In the second half, the open tunnel would be newly rehabed, so it might be possible).
Very interesting, my uncle and cousin are currently working on redoing a train tunnel in New Jersey, where there are also train problems.
Cool! The NJ and NYC train systems are very related.
Started looking into this subject. Was curious if large shipping container ship can cross the Long Island Sound? A solution I was thinking of was turning Rikers island (proposing to be closed) into a new container port, building a smaller bridge to connect with Hell Gate, and bringing freight on to Long Island that way. After the stop over in Rikers, a container ship can go down the Hudson to the of Newark.
I do think the Long Island sound is navigable, yeah. It's an interesting idea there.
@@SignoreGalilei Might need to reconfigure the Oakpoint yard to have trains turn around
Problem with trucks on Long Island is most east to west highways are parkways which only allow cars, while the only highway that allows trucks are the LIE (i-495), and Sunrise Highway, which is a standard 3-lane road before becoming a highway further out east. That means there's a lot of congestion from trucks on standard roads.
Eesh, I suppose this is part of the reason that the LIE is so infamous for its traffic.
good video bro, keep it up
Just to note, the 75% reduction in capacity is only if they were to alternate train directions in the one tunnel. The railroads use this figure to scare up support even though it is a lie. On weekends the current schedule allows for closing of a single tunnel for short-term repairs. They convoy trains for 25 minutes and then switch directions. It takes 5 minutes to clear the tunnel. In this way, they can keep hourly service with a 5/12 capacity. The bigger issue with not being able to close a tunnel for long term repairs is the open tunnel would have to remain open 24/7 without failures, which for the first half of the project would be impossible. (In the second half, the open tunnel would be newly rehabed, so it might be possible).
Makes sense, 7/12 is not quite as bad a reduction as 75%. That second part does sound like a big issue though.