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Posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Dec 29 12:44:22 2015, in response to Re: W to Astoria/N and Q to 96th Street?, posted by AlM on Tue Dec 29 09:32:27 2015. Demands Change, and how do you know what the demands will be. Certainly they will be as you say IF you send only one train us Second Avenue, since that frequency cannot compete with the Lexington Avenue Line. So if the idea was to relive congestion on the Lex, there must be at least equal service on the Second. Ergo the (Q) and the (N) will have to go there.Even if they do not, the (N) can run local in Queens, and there switch to the 63rd Street tunnel, leaving only the (R) to Astoria via the 60th Street tunnel. This will also put 3/4 or the service across the bridge if that is what you want, but I think not. You say many people do not want downtown Manhattan, but I do not know about that. The overall consideration is not speed or convenience for individual travelers, but for balanced service on the railroad. 1/2 this way and 1/2 that way makes the whole railroad run faster. That ride across the bridge is not all that fast: I used to ride it every day. And the proof of my story is that I passed up the (F) train at Bergen two blocks south of my home for the QB train at DeKalb maybe six or more blocks from my home because of the more frequent service. And Bridge or tunnel, it is faster than the Rutgers Tunnel. BTW 34th Street was my destination so (F) or (QB) et al had more frequency. I can foresee a situation where people living on Second Avenue my still take the Lexington over the Second if the frequency is not there. ROAR |
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