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Posted by ElectricTraction on Thu Aug 20 17:44:40 2015, in response to Re: What's the obsession with making the subway go EVERYWHERE?, posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Thu Aug 20 11:14:19 2015. If they could actually figure out how to connect the Queens Blvd line with the RBB, that would be a decent alternative, but it still leaves the line out to Rockaway as a subway, and it doesn't allow the resurrection of the Rockaway loop, which would provide Far Rockaway with a faster path into Manhattan.Time for some serious foam. What if they used the outer two tracks for the subway with a connection to the Queens Blvd line, and the inner two tracks for LIRR? The LIRR would have a couple of island platforms, with the 4 tracks bowing out around it, and the subway would have many side platform stations. Assuming that the FRA would have too much heartburn over an at-grade crossing between the subway and LIRR, one subway track would fly over the LIRR either just north or just south of the JFK Airtrain station, allowing reversing, and allowing the LIRR to continue on to Rockaway, Far Rockaway, and Jamaica. The LIRR could then restore the connection to the Atlantic Ave branch with a nice fly-under, and the subway could connect to the J-Z lines with a giant flyover the supermarket. However, I still don't see it being terribly easy to connect to the Queens Blvd line, as there is a very tight turn to connect the tracks. I'm not sure exactly what the configuration is down there, but it might involved quite a bit of reconfiguration of the existing line to make a connection. |
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