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Re: Time to consider extending late-night (R) train to Whitehall Street? |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Thu Apr 16 09:45:53 2015, in response to Re: Time to consider extending late-night (R) train to Whitehall Street?, posted by Wallyhorse on Thu Apr 16 06:58:01 2015. I think they are moving away from late-night express service as much as possible. The Q express on Broadway in Manhattan was recently made local late nights. The 3 runs express to Times Square at night mainly because it is the only convenient place to turn it. That leaves the D in Manhattan and the F in Queens as the only services running express at night for the sake of running express. The Q using the Manhattan Bridge is different than a normal express run, it was always considered a separate route from the one through the Montague Tunnel, and the R stations in lower Manhattan really don't need two services at night.What they should do with the R nighttime shuttle is make sure it is timed for quick connection to the N at 59th St. That is, a southbound R should leave 59th St. a minute or two after a southbound N, and arrive there northbound a minute or two before a northbound N. If this could be done reliably (and I don't know to what extent it is currently done at all), they wouldn't even need to run the R shuttle to 36th St. for connection with the D. (Similarly timed connections should be done with the Rockaway Park shuttle and the A at Broad Channel.) But as long as the R shuttle does run to 36th St., and skips 53rd and 45th Streets northbound, the fact that it skips them should be noted on the subway map. |
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