Trolley line ideas for Staten Island.

[T to Dyre Avenue]

If the Verrazzano can handle two or three-car trains of LRVs on the upper level, then I think the City needs to seriously consider building a light rail connection between SI and Brooklyn.

[Ceya]

Moses held 4 major post,the beginning of the end. Subway system had no chance with him using public funds for pet projects.

 

S/F,

CEYA!

 

Public administrator, born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Independently wealthy (he seldom accepted any salary), he was educated at Yale, Oxford, and Columbia universities as a political scientist. He began his government career in New York City's Bureau of Municipal Research (1913) with an attempt to reform the civil service along the lines of his graduate thesis.

 

In 1919 he became chief-of-staff of New York State's reconstruction commission under Governor Al Smith, who would long be his chief sponsor. In 1924 he was appointed head of both the New York State Council of Parks and the Long Island State Park Commission.

 

Using these and many other positions, notably New York City Parks commissioner (1934–60) and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel authorities (1934–68), he radically changed the city and its environs, creating a system of parkways to get New Yorkers to the outskirts, to Jones Beach (his pet project), and to the many state parks which he also set up. By the end of his career he was credited with building 416 miles of parkway, 13 major bridges, and 658 playgrounds, as well as setting aside over 2 000 000 acres of parkland.

 

 

 

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[theaveragejoe]

Anyway if light rail is going to be used to cross the Verrazano Siemens should build the light rail cars. Sorry if it sounds like an ad or foaming but they had built one of the worlds fastest and highest capacity light rail cars ever the Siemens S70. It can run at speeds of 72 mph and carry 262 passengers in sitting and stand position. If the light rail car carries people at 65 mph on the bridge a lot of people would use it because it would be as fast as a car on the bridge itself.

 

Here's a picture

 

 

Now can you guys picture what one would look like crossing the Verrazano. It just might work. If they do this we might kick Robert Moses a** who tried to cut out rapid transit which is a good thing. Not just that if it works on the Verrazano it just might work on all of his other bridges and tunnels. Each light rail station should be placed at the same distance as a subway station. It would be fast, efficient and in some cases act just like a subway line at a fraction of the cost.

 

 

 

I dont think those would work due to their weight , they weight more then a 18 wheeler

[T to Dyre Avenue]

There are LRVs that weigh less than that one. But a two- or three-car train of them would probably still be heavier than an 18-wheeler. It might weigh less than a tandem-trailer truck, though.

[Roadcruiser1]

Yes, but I am worried that the construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge Light Rail would shut part of bridge down and cause heavy traffic delays. That is why they would have to build a new bridge from Brooklyn-Staten Island to alleviate congestion, and it could be built to handle rail traffic.