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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 13:07:14 2014, in response to Re: QueensWay gets $444,000 grant form NY State to design the first phase, posted by Joe V on Thu Dec 18 12:16:49 2014. 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.The Williamsburg Bridge crossing has the lowest ridership of all the Brooklyn-Manhattan crossings, according to the 2013 Hub Report data. They operate 15 tph during peak periods. Their max loading per car is 105 for cars that are designed to handle 145 people. That's a load factor of 0.72. By contrast they operated 26 tph peak in the 1950's. Given the low load factor and great potential for increased service should the load factor warrant, I'd suggest that duplicate service isn't warranted now or in the near future. |
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