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Re: Straphangers to MTA: There's only two way this can possibly work... |
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Posted by Michael549 on Thu Mar 8 22:46:27 2012, in response to Re: Straphangers to MTA: There's only two way this can possibly work..., posted by E and F and sometimes J on Thu Mar 8 17:54:33 2012. The basic problem is that the current M-train riders having gotten a useful route (now to midtown) will not be very happy, I'd say pissed at any reduction of the new M-train.As folks on this forum noted, replacing the current M-train with an "old M-train" that in their words "does not go anyplace" would be seen as a service cut. Many forum folk here repeatedly expressed the viewpoint that the brown M-train to southern Brooklyn, "did not carry anybody", as compared with the current orange M-train "which is finally useful". So I'd say you're gonna have a fight on your hands with this proposal. Plus your proposal involves taking service away from folks who are finally happy that "the M-trains goes someplace useful" to giving Park Slope and Culver line riders a quick ride on an express train. They will be boiling tar and plucking feathers faster than you can get out of Dodge. Just face it - once the V-train was removed and re-vamped into the current orange M-train, the best options for a Culver line express route died. Even in your first proposal with F-trains every 8 minutes at the local stations - what community is going to WANT to reduce its train service, in exchange for express runs that do not stop at the most heavily used local stations? That also has been the basic problem of any scheme for Culver express service. Good luck getting the tar and feathers off. (smile) Mike |
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