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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 Sun Feb 19 12:50:46 2012, in response to Re: Lawmakers: southern Queens commuters need a new railway more than the QueensWay, posted by Elkeeper on Sun Feb 19 12:26:33 2012. Not talking about late-night service here. The issue is about running the N through the tunnel full-time, that is 24/7. As I stated before, there's no need to do that. There is only a need to run the N through the tunnel during overnight hours when the R shuttles between 36th and 95th.The R used to run 24/7 between Forest Hills and 95th. When the R was rerouted to 71st/Continental in 1987, it kept its 24-hour service. The reason it lost is full-time service in 1990 was due to MTA and City budget issues. The MTA felt it could cause the least amount of pain by cutting late-night R service to 36th/4th because the R only had the four stops below 59th Street entirely to itself. Above 59th, the R shared all of its stops with either the F, G or N trains. Because those other lines had significantly more stops entirely to themselves, the MTA felt they could sufficiently cover overnight service at the stations they shared with the R. Oddly enough, when the R initially lost its late night service in 1990, the N was rerouted back onto the bridge and ran express between 34th/Broadway and Canal except during overnight hours. The N continued to run through the tunnel to replace the R. Unfortunately, that lasted only three months, when City inspectors found that structural damage on the south side of the Manhattan Bridge was much worse than they thought. So the N was back in the tunnel 24/7 where it stayed for 12 more years. |
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