Re: (erielack) NJ/PA - Environmental Assessment for Lackawanna Cutoff now ava...

[ERIE LACKAWANNA <erie_lackawanna_@_yahoo.com>]

And You could not be anymore wrong Don.
 
You lack experience on buses. You do not mention many railroads once owned their own buses to make travel convenient and easy for their passengers at end of line. 
 
People stopped using trains because they cost more and did not have one seat option to NYC for less money as is case with MARTA and many others. And rail equipment was old and rickety and buses newer. No commuter buses ever featured food options.  Greyhound tried it in the 30's and did not work.
 
MARTA and Lakeland do a good Job with ex-Cut Off service and won passengers who would never go back. Someone stated here last week a study indicated only 46 passengers would use alleged train service to and from Scranton. This was why the service got discontinued. Lack of ridership.  And many railroads deliberately raised fares and not clean equipment to discourage ridership and make their claim valid to the state. EL did a good job of this getting rid of the Northern Branch trains on the Branch and moving them to the Main Line out of Waldwick where they remain today as 1200-1204-1206 and 1201-1203-1205
 
NJT is basically a Bus Company taking over most of NJ's bus lines and investing heavy in them than rails. If all your blabbing of the Cut Off were of interest to the state it would never have been abandoned but upgraded the service.. And with everyone loosing jobs today makes the Cut Off less of a necessity with no one out there to ride it. 
 
Railfan's love to see it and grab the comers and get pictures, but many empty seats on the train does not keep it running.
 
Jerome





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