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Re: Another Queens Bus Redesign misstep |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jun 18 10:30:55 2025, in response to Re: Another Queens Bus Redesign misstep, posted by Allen45 on Wed Jun 18 09:44:12 2025. at the end of the day you can only go so far with them, you are limited to where the trains goThat depends on government policy and its willingness to carry it out. Paris embarked on a stated policy of Metro expansion after the success of the first two lines in the early 1900's. The policy was to expand until every building was within 500 meters (0.3 miles) of a Metro entrance. Paris did not expand to its 1848 boundary (the 20 arrondissments) until the 1920's. There were still peach orchards within its gates in the early 1900's. The current criterion is 1/2 mile walking distance or 800 meters. Today's Metro entrances are within 97% of the buildings in Paris. 84% meet the 1900's criterion of 500 meters. The comparable 800 meter figure for NYC is 43%, with Manhattan coming in at 87% and Queens at 45%. The other boroughs are: Bronx at 53%; Brooklyn at 64% and Staten Island trailing at 3%. I've estimated that had the 1929 SAS plan been implemented, approximately 72% of Queens buildings would have been within 800 meters of a subway entrance. That figure would have been much closer to 97%, had I used a building census from 1939 - the 1929 plan's projected completion date. Had they been proposed and carried out, postwar plans would have placed NYC on a par with Paris regarding ubiquitous subway access. |
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