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Posted by MATHA531 on Tue Mar 13 18:18:23 2012, in response to Re: The MTA's Misplaced Priorities, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Mar 13 16:17:00 2012. ...but isn't that the true role of government...to provide essential services such as public transportation for all of its citizens.Look....the city was forced to abandon the second system of the IND because of the war..I get that but ever since the end of World War II, how much new subway construction has there been? The second Avenue subway is simply a replacement for the Third Avenue el, isn't it? We had the connection of South Brooklyhn IND to the Culver line...a new subway of what length? Archer Avenue but then again that's a replacement, isn't it, for tearing down the end of the Jamaica el. the 63rd Street tunnel although it's partly there because of train traffic as well as rapid transit, isn't it The connection from Euclid to the remnants of the Fulton Street el and then the connection to Rockaway Christie Street...although that really for the most part didn't bring new subway service to areas that didn't have it but rather to make more effective use of the subways we already had, right? That's it...for the most part, those areas of Brooklyn east of Nostrand Avenue, south of the junction (except for a small portin of Canarsie close to the L) all of South east Queens, all of Staten Island have never gotten subway service and we all know never will. Yet Paris has built several new metro lines. Even London, a system older than NY's has built some new subway lines since the war. NYC which one prided itself on its subway system has made the decision not to build any more subways. Now there might be a justification for this (NIMBY) but millions of New Yorkers have been setence to a life time of two fares and while one has to commend the city for at the very least eliminating the double fare to a degree, it still means that for example if I live in Bergen Beach say and wish to attend a Broadway show and don't want to get nailed for $50 for parking, I have to use a bus and a train and while subway servicde is reasonable at 2300, bus service is not often meaning a wait of 40 minutes. Or am I being unfair? |
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