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Posted by Broadway Lion on Thu Nov 6 07:49:40 2014, in response to Re: (R) train service still sucks, posted by Michael549 on Wed Nov 5 19:27:20 2014. The (R) of the LION.The (RR) is a train that I have generally avoided. I rode it once in the `60s and ended up in Vietnam. Weird train. But look at how the railroad is constructed and you will see what has to be in order to keep the thing working smoothly. LION speaks of the layout of the rails, switches, towers, and signals. Each time you divert a train from one track to another, especially at flat junctions, you slow the whole world down. Eventually it will stop spinning and fall into the sun, so it is better to keep the trains moving efficiently. The (RR) is the Broadway/Fourth Avenue Local and there is nothing that can be done to change this. If it is sent to Astoria instead of to Continental, then it will ride on its own track for 100% of its route and would have no other train joining or leaving its tracks. An exclusive routing just like the (L) train. No switch towers needed except at the terminals. Can you say CBTC. Especially if it is sent to Astoria it would need higher frequencies. Some can be short turned at Whitehall. Saturate the line with RR service, all that the Astoria terminal can handle. The Broadway Express trains use the Bridge, and 63rd Street, the Broadway Local uses the Tunnel and 60th Street. Because of this the (N) train, an express, would run via the 63rd street tunnel and out to Continental via queens local. but of course will miss Queens Plaza. Too Bad, so sad. The (Q) train runs to 125th Street (or whatever) via the 63rd Street connection and Second Avenue. LION thinks that Second Avenue will require more service than just the (Q) train. Maybe the (N) must go that way too, in which case we will leave the IND to serve the Queensboro routing with out a boost from the BMT. Put more service on the (M) train, problem solved. LION KNOWS all about the problems with the layup of the (RR) with an Astoria-Ft Hamilton routing. Yes something must be done. LION would expand yards at 39th Street to layup and service the (RR) trains there. OOS trains would enter on the lower level then relay to one of three yards: (East of the station, north of the station, up the ramp, and west of the station perhaps out on one of the piers, the tracks are already there, you know. Between these places you could lay up and maintain all all of the trains that you like, and they would have easy access to Coney Island for the heavy work. NASSAU BROAD STREET. Well the Nassau loop made sense, but it is gone, and little else makes sense. Let it be the (JJ) terminal and be done with it. Just because tracks are there, does not mean that you have to use them. Boardings on the subway are double what they were 30 years ago: They will grow. Making more intricate routings will slow things down, keep it simple, keep it fast. KEEP IT SIMPLE: KEEP IT FAST! ROAR |
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