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Posted by Michael549 on Mon Jun 29 14:08:29 2015, in response to Re: M to West 4th on Weekends/Late Nights, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 29 13:13:39 2015. I do not see a reason on the weekends for extending the weekend M-train to Queens Plaza. I simply do not believe that the weekend ridership numbers support such an operation.I've already said that I'd prefer having the weekend M-train end at Chambers Street allowing riders to directly transfer to the #6, the N, Q and R trains at Canal Street, and the #4, #5 and #6 at the Chambers Street/Brooklyn Bridge station. I've even said that I'd bring back the "brown M-train" for the weekends. The numbers of folks from Fresh Pond Road traveling to Grand Avenue each and every weekend is a rather small amount of folks, compared to the huge numbers of folks just traveling from Queens to Manhattan generally. Does this mean that riders bound for Queens Blvd along 53rd Street might have to transfer? Does this mean that riders along Sixth Avenue bound for Queens Blvd local stations might have to transfer? Yeah! This is the nature of public transit! Folks often have to transfer between trains! Some nostalgia buffs want to return to the days when the GG (which did not travel at all to Manhattan) was the only local train along Queens Blvd 24/7/365, when the TA strongly suggested that riders use the #7 train to Roosevelt Avenue and then use the GG train for by-passed local stations. (For long periods of time, the RR, then EE, then the N-train only operated along Queens Blvd on the weekdays only. Now it is the RR on the weekends.) I'm sorry, I understand the plight of those who have two or three seat rides. I do so - daily - Staten Island bus - Staten Island Ferry and the subway! At least the weekend and late-night hourly ferries are GONE! And that was regardless of the ridership numbers! It took a very long time to do so! The F-train HAS the ridership numbers, has a stable understandable route, and allows transfers to a variety of lines. Some buffs even want to go back to the days when the F-train operated on 53rd Street full-time - as the natural order of things - with huge amounts of pining, whining and crying! The hate for the V-train did not stop for years, but now it seems folks are in LOVE with the M-train! The moaning and the groaning never ends! (LOL!) Not everybody gets a one-seat ride! That's life! Mike |
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