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Re: The Time for Reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Line is Now |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Tue Nov 25 09:24:47 2014, in response to The Time for Reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Line is Now, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Nov 24 17:16:50 2014. As I wrote there (under my Twitter handle, Hoops And Horses):This definitely needs to be done: If people who want to see this happen can somehow convince Genting (the parent company of Resorts World that runs the Casino at Aqueduct) to get behind this, They stand to benefit from having a second line stop at Aqueduct coming from Queens Boulevard as part of this. To get them to back it, however, it could require whatever new line that runs that way come from lower Manhattan. As Genting is based outside the US and given from my own experiences in dealing with people from outside the US that lower Manhattan is still considered to be by many of those people to be "The Financial District" (even if most know that is no longer the case), that could be a stipulation to get them to back such a line. With that in mind, I would be looking at a new (W) train that would run from Whitehall Street via the Broadway Line and Queens Boulevard to the Rockaway Beach Line and Rockaway Park. That would require a slew of other changes that would include the (D) and (R) trains changing southern terminals in Brooklyn (so the (R) has a yard), the (R) going back to being the 24/7 Astoria Line like it was through 1987 and the (N) becoming part-time to Astoria and the rest of the time perhaps being a supplement to the (Q) on the SAS. The other option would be to have a 6th Avenue branch be the SAS if a lower Manhattan requirement is not necessary. This would actually be better and a lot simpler since such could be a revived (V) train from 2nd Avenue to Rockaway Park via 63rd Street (but with the (M) also continuing on 6th Avenue as well). |
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