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Re: Why We Need a Moratorium on Future SBS Routes |
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Posted by sloth on Sat Mar 7 17:28:33 2015, in response to Re: Why We Need a Moratorium on Future SBS Routes, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Mar 6 11:42:45 2015. It's not that simple. The signalling system, and to a lesser extent the Great Neck bottleneck, are not going to be able to handle this, even if the relays are expedited.From 7:28a to 9:06a you have 12 scheduled westbounds already. Running this service would bring you to around 30 scheduled westbounds in 98 minutes. In a few instances, there is a second Great Neck train sitting in the station waiting for the first one to come out of the pocket track already. Then there are three eastbounds that have to get to Port Washington over the single track against all those westbounds. If you schedule trains 3 minutes apart they are going to be catching each other's codes on a regular basis, which slows down all service and knocks out the synchronization of the single track service. If you run the shuttle service at a frequency that Port Wash *could* handle, it would run every 10-12 minutes, and there will be some bigger gaps, since it's not like these trains are going to be the priority over regular service. That may not be preferable to the slow bus to Flushing. I would think a bus terminal in Willets Point combined with some kind of busway that skirts Flushing to the north or south would be a far better use of funds, assuming a #7 extension is never happening. |
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