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Restoring The Culver Express

Posted by Wallyhorse on Wed Sep 17 18:44:19 2014, in response to Restoring (F) Brooklyn Express train proposal, posted by Gold_12th on Tue Sep 16 20:05:08 2014.

As I said before on this:

becomes the Culver Express, going via the after West 4th and running via Culver Express to Coney Island, except overnights.

Biggest benefit is it gives riders at Coney Island, express stops between Church Avenue and Jay Street (including Bergen Street if the lower level were to be rehabbed to reopen), York Street, East Broadway, Essex-Delancey and Broadway-Lafayette a new one-seat option via 8th Avenue they don't currently have PLUS also gives riders on the a new transfer to the 8th Avenue Line at Bleecker.  Next biggest benefit is it gives riders on the Fulton the option to switch to the at Jay Street if they are going to midtown and bypass lower Manhattan by doing so.

Biggest con is it does mean the and all stop on the local track at Broadway-Lafayette, but we are only talking about the one station and if at peak periods it's 30-32 TPH that can be manageable.

replaces the as the Fulton Local at all times to Euclid Avenue and late nights is extended to Lefferts Boulevard to eliminate the late-night Lefferts Shuttle.  Rush hours, some trains (including those AM from and PM to 179th Street) terminate at Chambers Street as the does now.

The would join the in terminating at Church Avenue, except overnights when the would run as it does now.

The train (or the old (AA) train that some remember) is brought back as a supplemental train between Chambers and 168th Street.  This would only be 2-4 TPH, with 15-minute intervals at the shortest even in peak periods since its only meant for people at Chambers, Canal or Spring Street who want a one-seat ride to the UWS or are too lazy to walk over to the north platform (and those north of Spring looking for that or the ).

This to me would be the way to do it if the pols and others insist on there being a Culver Express.