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I stated that I was for the Montaño stop.
I'm against adding permanent rail stops at lightly-served locations.
Regarding Montaño, that's why I said typically and not always; based on the conversation to this point, it sure seemed to me like that's exactly what you were advocating (a lightly-served rail stop 1 mile from stops in either direction).
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Just move some ramps up for however many rail cars
that have Balloon people on them. It's a one-time thing.
Hmm.. interesting solution. Would of course have to acquire the ramps, perform whatever tracking/scheduling/FRA paperwork/etc. goes along with adding a destination as such. Wouldn't have near the level of expense of a full-fledged station, so it's an interesting idea. Is that how that "Lobo stop" works?
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Like all those people in wheelchairs are going to want to huff
it up the hill for a half-mile to the Fiesta grounds entrance.
Oh, but think of how fast they could go on the way back!
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After exercising, you continue to burn calories at an increased rate.
Oh, I figured walking around at the fiesta took care of the increased metabolism.
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You forgot to include the 20 minutes riding back, BTW. I'd just like to point that out.
I thought it was 10 minutes each way for 20 minutes total.
This is starting to sound like a school math problem:
"If Susie bikes to the Balloon Fiesta from Rio Bravo, how many Krispy Kremes can she eat if she doesn't want to gain weight?"
Zoidberg: he knows how to hurt someone's feelings!
I think everybody knows how to hurt someone's feelings.
Now, knowing how to not hurt someone's feelings, that's quite a skill.
Just occurred to me about this temporary stop idea.. how would people get from their train car to Alameda? Would they walk along the right-of-way, and wouldn't there be increased risk to local landowners of trespassing?
I was thinking about that too. I would assume they would let them off right next to Alameda as soon as the train was out of way of the road, they would only have to walk a trains length down the tracks (which would be full of the temp platform anyways). They own enough of the land next to the track to have a buffer and not bother other property owners.
That said I think it would be nicer if they let them off on the Northwest corner of the park on the north side of the Arroyo and got the right away to then walk into the park from there and made some kind of path. It would be a shorter walk and you would avoid throngs of people walking down Alameda and then walking down the road to get into the park with all the cars, etc.
The real problem I would see is getting the right away on the tracks to schedule additional trains southbound. If they used their normal schedule they would have 4 northbound trains from 4:00 am - 6:30 am, but only 1 southbound at 8:30ish
There's an article in the Journal about the bus mess. The guy in charge basically said
"tough luck" and that he sees no reason to change how they are doing things..
He graciously said that you can get a refund if you didn't get a ride..
I would do the park and ride again in a heartbeat.
We took Park & Ride (paid in advance) from Hoffman on Sunday morning.. We were there by 5:10am and safely and swiftly boarded the buses and arrived at the park in time for the 5:45 am festivities!
Sorry to those of you who got left behind on Saturday...
PS.. We boarded the bus to Hoffman heading back at around 10am and swiftly left the park with no line. we were back at the Hoffman Church in no time.
no complaints here.. Skysz
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