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Posted by Michael549 on Sun Oct 23 12:43:06 2016, in response to Re: Staten Island rail tunnel, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 23 10:47:01 2016. Of there has been the proposal to extend a route like the R-train into Staten Island, or at least some kind of train service from the 59th Street-Fourth Avenue station.The travel time of the Staten Island Ferry is a known quantity - about 22-minutes, usually in a 30-minute time slot. The travel time of the R-train from the 95th Street-Fourth Avenue terminal to Whitehall Street-South Ferry is a known quantity - about 32 minutes on the rush hour schedule. While many ferry riders may work within walking distance of the Manhattan Whitehall Ferry Terminal Building - many, many ferry riders make the daily trek to the nearby subway stations to complete their journeys. In addition very few ferry riders on the Staten island end daily walk to the ferry terminal building with most having to take a bus, the SIR or drive. Basically it appears that the creation of a subway tunnel connecting to/from Staten Island and Brooklyn is a "wash" time savings wise. Of course someone may propose a direct route via the N-train to/from Manhattan or other routing for such a tunnel. Mike |
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