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Posted by E and F and sometimes J on Tue Feb 21 20:01:35 2012, in response to Re: One Big Loop d'Loop, posted by merrick1 on Tue Feb 21 19:21:08 2012. True, but ridership demands have always run counter to the IND planners. In the begining of the Queens IND the only the express services were to be Manhattan-bound. The only local on Queens Blvd was the G. The R train was not yet connected to Queens Plaza.The people demanded one seat rides to Manhattan on the local, so the R train was connected. Then Many decades later the G was removed from Queens Blvd and replaced by the V, which was replaced by the M, so now you have four manhattan-bound services on Queens Boulevard. Just imagine today if they had stuck to the plan and today the only local on Queens Boulevard was the Crosstown and in Brooklyn the C trains terminated at Hoyt and you had to switch to the A to continue your trip to Manhattan? The G as a local is a ridership failure outside of it's capture. It was a failure on Queens Boulevard and it is a failure on the Culver. Connecting the line to Manhattan in this way or in some other way would be the right move for the communities served by the G train. |
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