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Re: (rshsdepot) Binghamton-Syracuse but not Binghamton-New York

This all stems from the DestiNY USA project to create the largest mall in
 the US out of the Carosel ("merry-go-round") mall in Syracuse......

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From: Paul S. Luchter
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:03 PM
To: RSHSDepot
Subject: (rshsdepot) Binghamton-Syracuse but not Binghamton-New York

I have been thinking this one over for a while...

It did say because the Binghamton to NYC route would take five years to 
do, that they decided to go this way, to Syracuse, didn't it?

This to me makes very little sense. Not that I don't think it is cool 
that they are restoring a service defunct for 44 years. But that is just 
the point...Binghamton to New York (or Hoboken) makes sense...some 
people would like that..(would they just have to fix Port Jervis to 
Binghamton section anyway?), there would maybe be a ridership between 
the big city...But Syracuse to Binghamton, while very scenic and I would 
like to ride it, seems silly, it would be a longer trip than car, bus, 
plane...it doesn't seem much of a revenue producer....

Now don't get me wrong...I think it is wrong that passenger service is 
so skeletal, how most places are not served by rail, that short feeders 
have been replaced with buses....that many ROWs are now hiking 
trails...all that is a bit sad...and having a route from Binghamton to 
Lake Placid, on such a mountain route is really cool, but it is kind of 
like when there was that service on the Gila Bend that connected with 
nothing...how can a train leave Binghamton, north and northeast and not 
head towards New York, or at least Philly...

Oh well. I am bucking the trend ain't I? where Amtrak might die or 
become just the corridor

Some day if the oil does run out this country will be in a lot of 
trouble transportation-wise, won't it..

Just venting

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