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Posted by Michael549 on Wed Jun 24 11:30:37 2015, in response to Re: M to West 4th on Weekends/Late Nights, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Jun 24 03:12:00 2015. From a previous message:"Let me just toss in a thought here FWIW. The IND has NEVER served CPW all that well, primarily because is borders on a park and the distance between the avenues is such that there never really was all that much demand on CPW local stops aside from perhaps the Museum and Planetarium stops. And the IND never really ran much local service there since the beginning. Residents of the upper west side KNOW they're stuck with the IRT there and it works for them. Always has." Considering the amount of debate and consternation, and multiple repeated proposals on the forum to "expand" weekend service on Central Park West - you would think that the segment is handling huge amounts of riders! It clearly is not, as compared to the nearby IRT subway! It is the repeated upon repeated attempts to "in my words tear up the subway map" to achieve results that benefit fewer riders, and that at the same time make trips for plenty of other riders more difficult! Yes, the built and adapted IND subway is in some ways a very flexible arrangement of tracks and stations. Some say it was over-built, over-engineered and designed - but that's an argument for another day. I do not really know if a part of the push behind such proposals is about "flexing the muscles" of the subways just to see what can be done. As if the current arrangement of routes is "boring" and needs a set of bold new colors for the spring season. In any case, there are huge substantial numbers of riders using the D-train in the Bronx and Brooklyn, the C-train in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the A-train, the F-train, even the J and M trains. These numbers represent the expressed needs of the riders - even on the weekends. If each of these riders were to use a car instead of the subways - NYC would be very traffic choked. Just my thoughts. Mike |
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