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Originally Posted by TheCommodoreAfro
If taking the train was faster to work/home than driving, you'd start to see people use it - rather simple really.
The other thing they should take a look at is building parallel track so that during rush hours they could put express trains on the routes that would only stop at a few of the stations - hence decreasing the actual time spent in a commute.
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It is far faster to take the train (most days) than drive. It takes me less than half the time to get to/from downtown to Whitehorn on the train than it would driving.
I do really like the idea of the parallel track, though it would never happen. There is not enough room downtown to add two more tracks and it would cost the city 10's of millions of dollars to buy property in the burbs if the Glenmore expansion set the precident.
There is one other HUGE bonus to taking the train...$70 a month for a transit pass vs $26 a day to park in the impark lot behind my building...and the $70 is tax deductable.