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Posted by Nilet on Thu Nov 27 22:41:27 2014, in response to Re: 42 St Light Rail, posted by Andrew Saucci on Thu Nov 27 18:24:06 2014. This has me thinking-- it's too late now, but perhaps part of the 2 Ave subway construction should have been light rail on the surface.No. The 2nd Avenue subway has to play nice with 10-car subway trains so it can't handle light rail. Maybe this should be considered for the 3 Ave subway (still needed to replace the el) or Lion's 5 Ave subway. Meh. For 3rd Avenue, we should rebuild the el. (Also 9th Avenue.) There's plenty of room for light rail in the outer boroughs. Alternatively, we could turn certain streets into bus/light rail corridors similar to Seattle's downtown transit tunnel, though able to accommodate delivery trucks while being closed to ordinary traffic. This would allow effective street-running light rail and reasonably fast bus service, creating high-capacity transit access while choking vehicular traffic and providing an incentive to use it. Perhaps a congestion charge could be added to further discourage unnecessary driving. |
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