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Re: Lawmakers: southern Queens commuters need a new railway more than the QueensWay |
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Posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Tue Feb 14 22:20:53 2012, in response to Re: Lawmakers: southern Queens commuters need a new railway more than the QueensWay, posted by ENY Blitz 5107 on Tue Feb 14 18:41:34 2012. Nearly five decades of "Not in My Back Yard" are what stopped this section of the Rockaway Line from getting recycled into a part of the subway unlike the rest of the line south of Liberty Avenue. Through the years, nature began to reclaim the line as no one from the city bothered to maintain it. That's why it won't be cheap to rebuild the line. But it would still be cheaper than building a new route from scratch.There are several reasons why LIRR should not get the Rockaway Line back: 1. They let it go in the first place 50 years ago. They didn't try to get it back for five decades. Why would they want it back now, especially with all the train traffic into and out of Penn Station? 2. Fares would be significantly higher than the subway. 3. There is the perception that the LIRR prefers to focus solely on commuters in Nassau and Suffolk Counties and that they see Queens riders as "Transit's problem." 4. FRA issues. Railroad and Transit trains south of Liberty Avenue have to be kept completely on separate tracks or the entire NYC subway becomes a mainline railroad with trains subject to quarterly FRA inspections and other FRA regulations. |
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