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Re: QueensWay gets $444,000 grant form NY State to design the first phase |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Dec 18 12:16:49 2014, in response to Re: QueensWay gets $444,000 grant form NY State to design the first phase, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Dec 18 11:35:17 2014. I would hardly call Brooklyn Manor and 104th Street/ Jamaica Avenue duplication. The trains would head in entirely separate directions and serve different markets. Intersecting rail lines also brings synergies.That station alone would get some existing Richmond Hill and Woodhaven people of the J train. But since they transfer to the M (or F) somewhere between Myrtle and Essex, that is a good thing. The M train for one needs congestion relief, and it will never get longer trains. The Millenials are moving into the very same neighborhoods and dwellings by the train loads that our Grandparents could not wait to get out of in the 1950's. As for the impact of the QB IND on the LIRR, what you say was true for 50 years, but no more. Kew Gardens and Forest Hills got off-peak trains every 2 hours until the 1980's. Now they can't seem to stop enough trains. I understand your half mile criteria. But that should go for parallel lines, not intersecting at almost right angles. NYC households are overall more transit-dependent than any other city that I can think of in the continent, and that is not a question of rich/poor. You put lines back where there is a market and where there is a right of way. The RBB has both. Most other areas that are unserved have no right of way available. |
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