<div dir="ltr">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!)<div>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.<br><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:39 PM Lucy Aguirre <<a href="mailto:a.lucille.a@gmail.com">a.lucille.a@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Is there anything we residents can do to increase weekday service at the RP station? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Lucy</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Queensbury Rd</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:06 PM Dwight Holmes <<a href="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwightrholmes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div>(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!)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:24 PM Jonathan W. Ebbeler <<a href="mailto:jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com" target="_blank">jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Transit%20Projects/Cornerstone/MCP_MARC.pdf" target="_blank">https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Transit%20Projects/Cornerstone/MCP_MARC.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is a good blog about it here (in case you want to skip reading 68 pages)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ggwash.org/view/74948/is-marc-train-rail-new-cornerstone-plan-a-step-backwards" target="_blank">https://ggwash.org/view/74948/is-marc-train-rail-new-cornerstone-plan-a-step-backwards</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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