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Re: Time to consider extending late-night (R) train to Whitehall Street? |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Sat Apr 18 08:41:37 2015, in response to Re: Time to consider extending late-night (R) train to Whitehall Street?, posted by AlM on Thu Apr 16 09:54:30 2015. Overall travel time of the entire population is reduced on lines where people have two local trains every 20 minutes compared to one express and one local.Agreed, but important to keep in mind that it is for this very reason that local service is a service expansion, increasing operating costs, especially when running times have been increased to the point of requiring another train-set and crew in action. If the F ran local on Queens Blvd at night, that would be an extra 12 minutes round trip, making the need for another train-set and crew likely. The D running local on both 6th Ave and CPW would add about 10 minutes round trip, so that would be more hit-or-miss but they would probably add the train-set and crew just to be safe. Can anyone enlighten me about the 3 train overnight? Does a train immediately turn back north upon arriving at Times Square, or is there a 20-minute buffer? If the former, which is what I suspect, then making it a local on 7th Ave would make not adding a train-set and crew really difficult, if not impossible, to maintain frequency. |
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