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Re: Upper East Side Residents Protest Proposed Subway Entrances |
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Posted by Michael549 on Sun Feb 26 15:05:53 2012, in response to Upper East Side Residents Protest Proposed Subway Entrances, posted by Gold_12TH on Sun Feb 26 12:41:10 2012. From the previous message:"But the transit authority said Hunter College would ensure that the stop stayed very busy, despite any siphoning off by the new Second Avenue line. Ms. Tendler also said East 67th Street was the site of a “very complicated switching system.” While the authority is considering the possibility of entrances there, which would be more expensive, it is now aiming to put the entrances on the south side of East 69th Street, which some residents still oppose." I am wondering about the "very complicated switching system”. At the northern end of the 59th Street-Lexington Avenue #6 local station (the upper level) the two local tracks spread to form a middle layup track. This middle track ended before the 68th Street station, however only trains coming uptown to 59th Street could make use of the middle track, think of it as a "pocket track". Unless of course the MTA has added approach switches headed south from the 68th Street station. (Similar to how such switches were added to the IND Central Park section between 72nd Street and 81st Street.) Has the MTA added additional switches to what used to be the pocket track north of the 59th Street-Lexington Avenue (upper level) #6 local station? Mike |
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