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The tend is to build rails to urban central district to keep business form moving outward. I think you will see more such rail I the future which includes between suburb area also. to connect them for higher usage. no rail for humans really makes much money as far as profit.
It would make sense. A lot of suburban residents complain that rail is great for reaching downtown but "I don't work downtown." but the large cities still have the clout. It is very hard for lots of small suburbs to get together to form a pressure group to get funding started. Of course many say that the suburban office complex such lines serve is falling out of favor.
That South Jersey Line isn´t geared towards commuters, though. It´s an excursion service, and FWIW, this is the first time I heard of it.
That line used to have passenger rail service from Philadelphia to Cape May. Now there is only seasonal service from Richland to Cape May. Ironically NJ Transit owns the tracks and could easily restore full service to it if properly funded but right now more focus is on the proposed Camden-Glassboro rail line.
Rail lines will be built if economic growth is expanded to the masses. If a high level of wealth is concentrated in a relatively small percentage of the population then the economic justification for mass transit expansion is unjustified. Those with wealth will fight against these projects because the taxes required to subsidized the expansion would need to come from the economically well off who are less likely to use mass transit.
The tend is to build rails to urban central district to keep business form moving outward. I think you will see more such rail I the future which includes between suburb area also. to connect them for higher usage. no rail for humans really makes much money as far as profit.
I wonder why you keep repeating this line in every post in regards to mass transit! Most people know that it has to be subsidised just like highways.
Rail lines will be built if economic growth is expanded to the masses. If a high level of wealth is concentrated in a relatively small percentage of the population then the economic justification for mass transit expansion is unjustified. Those with wealth will fight against these projects because the taxes required to subsidized the expansion would need to come from the economically well off who are less likely to use mass transit.
Actually the wealthy with political influence will make sure the high quality mass transit (trains rather than buses) will serve their neighborhood.
As a local the green line is pretty useless as it is now. They have to pull that green line all the way down to the southern edge of Torrance, up Aviation and eventually connect to the expo line. Having to go east to the hood to the travel west is plain inefficient.
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