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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Apr 22 16:11:41 2015, in response to Re: De Blasio Want To Expand The Subway, posted by Andy on Wed Apr 22 12:02:50 2015. There is a structural provision for a connecting track between the IRT and LIRR at Atlantic Avenue. In the early, early days, it was used by August Belmont to take his private car, the Mineola, from Lower Manhattan to...Belmont Raceway.Restoration of a track connection between the IRT and LIRR would necessitate the use of IRT cars, owing to the IRT's structure gauge, but, that said, I'm positive people living and working along Woodhaven Blvd. and Atlantic Avenue would appreciate subway service, plus access by subway to JFK Airport and Long Island from Brooklyn...the present Q24 bus is a very slow mode of transportation. Of course, SAS should have been completed a lifetime ago, so... |