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Posted by N6 Limited on Wed Feb 15 03:27:14 2012, in response to Underbuilt IND?, posted by merrick1 on Tue Feb 14 18:59:05 2012. While the QB line does get heavy usage during peak hours, most of that is just during the morning crunch when everyone is trying to get to work and school at the same time. Other than that the QB line has enough capacity, and the trains aren't sardine packed like the Lex line. Contrary to popular belief among some posters, it is OK for a train to be SRO. Also, when the IND was built in Queens, they probably built an express stop at Roosevelt Ave to compete with the IRT. Now you have riders transferring from the 7, adding to the peak capacity issues. If the transfer between the IRT an IND were closed, the QB line would be just fine capacity wise.As a QB rider it would be nice to go from Hillside Ave directly to Manhattan, but the practical side of me knows that it's unnecessary. Though, If the QB line did go further into Queens and had all the miscellaneous branches as planned,then it would need the bypass tracks because there wouldn't be enough capacity with 4 tracks on the trunk line to handle all of the trains needed to provide a reasonable level service to the outer branches. Then again, 71st Contenental doesn't have to be used as a terminal, and they could have just had local thru trains serve various branches. Also, while there may be room under QB for more tracks, don't forget that the western portion of the line runs under Broadway(which is narrow) and Northern Blvd. Theoretically if they did a 6 track line, they could have made Queens Plaza like Hoyt-Schermerhorn, and ran a 4 track express line under Northern Blvd. When the express tracks rejoined with the Local Tracks at Broadway, they could have dipped the super express tracks under the existing express tracks until the route reached Queens Blvd where everything could have spread out. |
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