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Re: Flip Flopping the 7 and N/Q |
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Posted by handbrake on Thu Jan 19 19:48:27 2012, in response to Re: Flip Flopping the 7 and N/Q, posted by italianstallion on Thu Jan 19 19:11:05 2012. That would be a valid argument for R/T expansion to points east & north, however urban development would most likely follow a subway line, and adding to the number of users that connect to the Flushing line by surface transportation.Looking at the bigger picture, one must take into consideration how many riders would not use Express buses, and the LIRR due to a an attractive one seat ride. Riders mid way along the northern Queens corridor would, I believe, continue to find themselves short changed when it comes to finding space onto a subway train that now originates four or five miles farther that it does today. That's why a four track trunk line, especially along Northern Blvd, would have been an ideal route selection during the Dual Contract period. With all the past discussion of conversion of the Flushing to physical B Division train operation, one major stumbling block is Queensboro Plaza's vestigial overhead iron work of trackways that now lead to no where since 1964. Had the re-engineering of QB Plaza taken into account a tunnel at 63rd Street, proposed in 1965, then I am of the opinion that rolling the Flushing line over to B Division equipment operation would have resolved the many interconnection issues that plague any such operation today. As for joint A & B Division equipment operation today, I don't see it happening. There are are far too many issues with potential litigation suits that can arise because some individual did not watch the gap between the platform and the train as its crossed. True if operating A Div equipment on a RoW simultaneously carrying B Div car equipment and clearances. I believe that the MTA will keep what is presently in place on the #7, and continue to try to squeeze ten pounds of "stuff" into a one pound bag. ATO with CBTC at the heart of a #7 line squeeze operation that is sending one additional pound into an already overflowing one pound bag. |
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