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Re: MTA overnight fixes in 2012 will shut down Manhattan subway lines for up to 4 days in a row |
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Posted by Michael549 on Tue Nov 15 01:45:42 2011, in response to Re: MTA overnight fixes in 2012 will shut down Manhattan subway lines for up to 4 days in a row, posted by R36 #9346 on Mon Nov 14 15:37:27 2011. One interesting aspect of "playing service planner" on the closed segments is figuring out a way that usual riders at those segments actually (meaning not in theory) find their way to the places that they would normally go. Meaning that it is not so much an exercise of how to move the trains, but more an effort to provide equivalent pathways from the closed places to the reminder of the line. What connects the segments that are created? What travel directions should be provided to the riders. That's important for this project to succeed.Just to pick one example: For the 6th Avenue Closure: (A) Operates Express between 145th and Canal Streets. (D) Operates in Two Sections: [1] between 205th Street, Bronx and 2nd Avenue via 8th Avenue Local [2] between Pacific Street and Coney Island. (F) Operates via 53rd Street/8th Avenue, Queens Local. (Q) Extended via 63rd Street to Continental Av, Queens Express. It is easy to say that riders who actually use the midtown Sixth Avenue stations could take the N, Q or R trains during the closed period, and transfer to/from D-trains in Brooklyn. Or use the #2 or #3 lines to Atlantic/Pacific complex for a transfer. Fair enough. Unstated - for D-train riders from the Bronx headed to/from Brooklyn - transfers at 59th Street or 42nd Street-Times would be needed for the #2 and #3 trains and a transfer back to the D-train at Atlantic/Pacific. This is what connects the D-train segments. Basically the MTA with its travel directions has a job ahead of itself, in some cases. In part because the subway lines at times was not really designed to work well together. Mike |
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