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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Sun Sep 7 21:37:31 2014, in response to Re: Penn Station Taxi Roadway…, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Sep 7 12:16:48 2014. If you feel so strongly about this, how about writing a letter to whoever has jurisdiction here? I'm not actually sure who that would be, since Amtrak, NJ Transit, and LIRR all share the lower levels, and probably some real estate management firm is involved too. When you write the letter, however, please be sure to provide some sort of justification for your position unless you want it to find its way to the circular file very quickly. Several people here have provided some rational reasons why the taxiway should be open. You might also explain how many people each day are inconvenienced by the closure and how low the actual risk is and that someone who wants to do harm can probably do so anyway.Just be careful, though-- they just might decide to close the whole area even to pedestrians once they realize that it provides an additional entrance and exit to Penn Station New York. In any case, I really don't care-- I would never risk my life with a New York City cab driver unless I were really, really desperate and completely unable to walk. What I would really like to see restored is the mid-block crosswalk and traffic signal on 31 St that used to be located at the south end of the taxiway until some time last year. It made getting to St. John the Baptist Church much easier after I exited Penn Station from the west exit to the taxiway. Now I have to walk all the way to 7 Ave, which adds at least a minute to my walk and increases the chances that I will be late for 7:45 AM daily Mass, especially if my train is a minute or two late. For me, that crosswalk was far more useful than the taxiway ever will be even if it is reopened to traffic. |
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