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Posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Wed Aug 19 15:51:53 2015, in response to What's the obsession with making the subway go EVERYWHERE?, posted by ElectricTraction on Tue Aug 18 20:49:53 2015. The city's population is growing and not showing any signs of stopping. New York is more crowded than it has ever been. We need to have infrastructure that can keep up with the growth and the crowds. Right now, we don't.1. The Rockaway Beach Branch would do almost no one any good if the LIRR took it back and reinstated train service. LIRR stopped running its trains on the RBB over 50 years ago. They didn't want it then and they don't want it now. People who live along the part of the branch used by the A train, many of whom are low- or middle-income folks, aren't asking for premium-priced commuter rail and may not be able to afford the LIRR's absurdly high fares. Or they may need to go to other areas of Queens not served by LIRR, but served by subway and/or bus. Those are good reasons to not only retain the A train on the RBB, but also to extend subway service onto the all-but-abandoned part of the branch between Ozone Park and Rego Park, as an extension of either the M or R train. 2. Staten Island is part of New York City, whether we like it or not. We can go on forever debating whether or not the island's population justifies a subway extension or if they even want it. We can't assume whether they do or don't. Time saved getting to Manhattan shouldn't be the deciding factor in building a subway extension to SI. SI only has two connections to the City, the ferry and the Verrazano Bridge. Both are heavily used and very susceptible to weather conditions. While a rail tunnel can flood, traffic through tunnels, in general, fares better in foul weather conditions. And a Brooklyn-SI tunnel would provide some redundancy to the Verrazano when it gets hit with heavy traffic or major construction. 3. I'm not against a 7 train extension to Secaucus, but I do believe if it ever gets the green signal for construction, it needs to be paid for by New Jersey, the Feds and/or the Port Authority. City taxes and MTA capital funding must not be used to construct such an extension when there are more pressing needs both in the City and the MTA service area that need to be addressed. |
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