“NJ Transit’s River Line (diesel light rail) is 34 miles long on one of the country’s oldest railroads”
“the Camden and Amboy”
Yea, I’m sure there are a whole hell of a lot of commuters on that route. Yea, if you into connecting RUST BELT cities and places, you can do that very cheaply, simply because the ROWs are there and no one wants to get near them.
The idea isn’t to build a transit system in a location because it happens to be cheap there (like Camden, LOL), it’s to build it where there is DEMAND. Sorry if that confuses you.
You are not making sense,
WADR. Camden is right across the river from Philadelphia, which is a significantly larger city than Hartford
UIGM (over ten times the population); a significant chunk of the ridership transfers to/from
PATCO, which goes to Center City.
And this is the first time I have heard of Philadelphia (and New Jersey) as being part of the “Rust Belt”.
Since CTfasttrak (the new name for the busway being discussed here) is being built on an old railroad right of way, the capital costs are
incredibly high. And since there are eleven stations planned on the approximately 9½-mile route, expect average speeds to be remarkably low.