[RP TownTalk] MARC Cornerstone Plan

[Dwight Holmes]

Get more of your friends, colleagues and neighbors to board the train at
RP!  Give 'em all the selling points: Inexpensive vis-a-vis Metro (even
moreso if you have federal commuting benefits through your employer), free
parking!, 10 minutes to Union Station!)
It's a numbers game.  While ridership has increased at our station, it's
increased up and down the line and we are still one of the low-ridership
stations.


On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:39 PM Lucy Aguirre <a.lucille.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there anything we residents can do to increase weekday service at the
> RP station?
>
> Thank you,
> Lucy
> Queensbury Rd
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:06 PM Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Jonathan.  As the blogger says, doesn't seem to be anything new
>> in there. I believe O'Malley laid out similar goals when he first became
>> governor.  On our Camden line, one afternoon train from Union Station was
>> added (lv 3:30) but of course it doesn't stop at Riverdale Park Town Center
>> station.
>> (Meanwhile of course they also haven't kept up with promised annual fare
>> cost-of-living fare increases and it is still, by far, the Best Deal in
>> Town!)
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:24 PM Jonathan W. Ebbeler <
>> jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>>> All
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In case anyone is interested, and since this impacts the community as a
>>> whole, MARC has released their new Cornerstone Plan.  It includes some
>>> ambitious goals like adding a third track, expanded weekday service and
>>> limited weekend service.  You can find a copy of it here:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Transit%20Projects/Cornerstone/MCP_MARC.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a good blog about it here (in case you want to skip reading 68
>>> pages) 😊 :
>>>
>>>
>>> https://ggwash.org/view/74948/is-marc-train-rail-new-cornerstone-plan-a-step-backwards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> JWE
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