<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I have actually reached out to our councilman Aaron Faulx about this. He said it has to go to the State level and be brought up at a meeting in which state reps are present. Hoping that happens soon. My low bar suggestion is to have the 2 trains that currently pass through RP but don’t stop actually stop there. (There’s one around 8:30 am and one around 5:30 pm coming back from DC.)<div>I’m personally willing to take signatures from town members in support of it, but until it gets on the docket at the state level, there would be no platform to show such signatures. </div><div><br></div><div>Caitlin<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Dec 4, 2019, at 5:46 PM, Dwight Holmes <<a href="mailto:dwightrholmes@gmail.com">dwightrholmes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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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