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Re: Upper East Side Residents Protest Proposed Subway Entrances |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Feb 28 07:12:38 2012, in response to Re: Upper East Side Residents Protest Proposed Subway Entrances, posted by Wallyhorse on Tue Feb 28 00:52:55 2012. It would be harder to know how many people pass through 51st Street. The number of fares paid might be lower than at 68th Street, but there are a lot of people who are getting on and off trains at that station. I pass through that station virtually every time I'm in New York but can only recall two times at most that I've gone through the turnstile there. If you make 51st an express station, you might overwhelm an already crowded station by giving even more people the option to transfer at 51st for the E and M, right now anyone on the express who wants to get to Queens has to take the R from 59th or use the out of system transfer to get to the F on 63rd. Never mind the fact that having 4 express stops in a row dilutes the advantage of having an express train as you are proposing. This idea (like many of yours, frankly) ought to be a nonstarter. The potential benefits simply don't justify the costs. |
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