{"id":2509,"date":"2022-09-07T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T00:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:38:20","slug":"madison-shore-line-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/madison-shore-line-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison (CTrail)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alrighty, a SLE-exclusive (SLExclusive?) station!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t know the typeface, but it’s not Helvetica Bold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alrighty, so Madison isn’t much. You have a big parking lot, presumably intended for a park & ride. Needless to say, parking was plenty and the lot was about half-full. That’s normal. What isn’t<\/strong> normal, however, is the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No second platform?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yup. It’s just a singular side platform. This means not every run of the SLE can stop here. So, how does scheduling work? Well, in the morning rush hour period, trains are ran only westbound, while all other times have eastbound-only trains stopping here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Empty track looking towards Old Saybrook and New London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The station is pretty much fully sheltered, with a facade of a station building. However, it’s not a building, but there are benches and some partly enclosed space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “building”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And outside!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, there are benches and wastebins, so there’s some<\/em> amenities. However, is it enough to save the lack of a second platform? No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Regional flying through<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s a park & ride off the interstate! It’s also fairly close to Madison’s town center, which seems like a nice place.

The bad: NO, NO, NO! WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE PLATFORM?! The single platform not only greatly hinders the Shore Line East’s service here, but also the Regional and Acela heading either way! Just, AUGH! No, just no! If there was a platform, this station could’ve scraped by with a 6, but NO!

Nearby points of interest: Madison’s town center! I’m not too familiar with the area, but it seems like a pretty nice place to relax and unwind.

Transit connections:
CTrail (Shore Line East)
CTtransit (201)
9 Town Transit (641)

Overall, why? I think it’s the least-used SLE station, given it’s the only one that’s still single platform. However, a “least used” station still deserves at least two platforms, one for each direction. And if it doesn’t have that, it’s kinda a bad station. Sorry, Madison, but you deserve better.

Rating: 4\/10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A nearby lake!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Acela, after delays started to clear up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Regional!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Is it me or do these things sound like geese honking?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alrighty, a SLE-exclusive (SLExclusive?) station! Alrighty, so Madison isn’t much. You have a big parking lot, presumably intended for a park & ride. Needless to say, parking was plenty and the lot was about half-full. That’s normal. What isn’t normal, however, is the platform. Yup. It’s just a singular side platform. This means not every … Continue reading “Madison (CTrail)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-irl","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}