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Posted by Michael549 on Mon May 25 20:30:31 2015, in response to Re: What Would Happen If The 60th Street Tunnel Were Closed?, posted by HANDBRAKE on Sun May 24 23:06:18 2015. From a previous message: "Over night shuttle operations limited to single track operation with 30 minute intervals, or replaced by buses."On the current N-train Weekday Service Time-Schedule South-Bound between Queens-Borough Plaza and 57th Street, the N-train is expected to make the journey in 8-10 minutes, for rush hours, day-times, evenings, and weekends. On the current N-train Weekday Service Time Schedule, the north-bound N-train is expected to make the journey from 57th Street to Queens-Borough Plaza in 8-10 minutes, during the various rush hours, day-times, evenings and weekends. On the current Q-train Weekday Service Time Schedule south-bound Q-trains are expected to travel between 57th Street to Queens-Borough Plaza in 9-10 minutes during the weekdays. The north-bound Q-train is expected to make the journey from 57th Street to Queens-Borough Plaza in 9-10 minutes during the weekdays. The current R-train schedule only has time points between the 60th Street-Lexington Avenue station and the Roosevelt Avenue station, and there R-trains are expected to make the trip in 15-16-18-20 minutes. I suspect the variance of the time would indicate the amount of riders, train congestion, etc. between the rush hour periods, day-times, night-times, etc. ------------ Why I do bring this up? Simple - I do not know exactly how much time it takes to travel to/from the 60th Street-Lexington Avenue station to/from either Queens-Borough Plaza or to/from Queens Plaza stations. I know that the run between those two stations is usually pretty speedy, or it as least it felt speedy when I rode those lines. Purely based on conjecture, I'd put the whole trip at 5 minutes. Which is why I'm puzzled at an off-the-cuff suggestion in a previous message that 30-minute intervals between trains would be needed IF there had to be a single track operation between the Queens-Borough Plaza and 60th Street-Lexington Avenue stations. Both of these stations have the track switching to make the operation straight-forward, and it is just a matter of controlling the traffic between these two points. I'm not usually skilled at making train schedules, or train meets. At a trip of say, 5 minutes for this kind of a run, I'm sure that each direction could be accommodated easily with trains running every 10 minutes without a problem. I know that someone here will correct my math, but trains every 10 minutes seems reasonable. I know that during the late nights that there were single track operations on the #4 line between Bowling Green and Borough Hall, and 30 minutes between trains simply did not happen. Just my thoughts. Mike |
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