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Posted by Michael549 on Fri Sep 19 00:24:29 2014, in response to Re: Culver Express, posted by coneyisl on Thu Sep 18 22:24:02 2014. One reason for the truncated F-train peak direction rush hour express service from 18th Avenue to Kings Highway was due to Park Slope residents who were tired of running up/down the stairs at Bergen Street trying to figure out just where next Manhattan F-train will stop.In addition folks living along the Park Slope wanted quick direct access to Manhattan claiming that the local service provided out of the Kings Highway station was not frequent - long wait times. Park Slope residents petitioned their political leaders to make all F-trains ALL LOCAL ALL THE TIME between Bergen Street and Church Avenue! Park Slope residents being more numerous and politically active WON THAT BATTLE! All of this occurred in the 1980's, and this history is highlighted when it comes to discussions about restoring F-train express service in Brooklyn. The Park Slope stations (that is stations between Bergen Street and Church Avenue) have the highest ridership of all of the F-train Brooklyn stations, the very stations that would be by-passed by the express trains. So when some folks talk about restoring an Brooklyn F-train express service there are questions about just who will be helped by such an express service. These points have been debated and talked about previously several times on this very forum in the past. In the recent past when this issue was discussed, there was the idea of extending the V-train to serve as the Brooklyn express, allowing all F-trains to remain as the full-time local service. An idea that gives everyone a bit of something without reducing service to the high ridership local stations, and taking into account the switch situation at Kings Highway. The reconfiguration of the V-train into the current version of M-train (which has proved to be very useful to both segments of Queens that it serves), means that there is no space (as in trains per hour) on Sixth Avenue for additional trains. Thus to create an F-train express service in Brooklyn, the amount of F-trains that service the local stations will have to be reduced, increasing the waiting time of those politically-connected riders at most heavily used local stations. Mike |
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