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Re: QueensWay gets $444,000 grant form NY State to design the first phase |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Dec 18 12:43:42 2014, in response to Re: QueensWay gets $444,000 grant form NY State to design the first phase, posted by NIMBYkiller on Thu Dec 18 12:09:15 2014. There was a bus company that tried bringing people in from Suffolk and dumping people at Willets Point. It failed, miserably.Let's see how germane that history is. 1. What was its cost? Was the bus free? My plan integrates bus/rail/subway trip into a single subway fare. 2. Was there an easy transfer to the Flushing Line? My plan would have an empty train waiting for each LIRR shuttle train. 3. What was bus frequency? My plan uses 10 minute headways. 4. What was travel time from Suffolk County? It's roughly 25 miles from Willets Pt to the Nassau/Suffolk border. That's an hour's travel. LIRR shuttle time between Bayside and Willets Pt is 12 minutes. The lack of west end capacity is exactly why LIRR needs to retain FBA direct access, not scootify the branch. One big problem with expanding subway service east of the existing Queens terminals is transit time. There needs to be a super express that bypasses the existing lines. If the City recaptured the Atlantic Ave Line, it could connect it to the underused Montague St Tunnel. It could use Atlantic Ave as that super express trunk for point east of Jamaica. This will cost real dollars and take years to eons to build. |
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