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Re: Developer Has Chance To Link Two Key Long Island City Subway Stations |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Tue Oct 25 22:21:29 2016, in response to Re: Developer Has Chance To Link Two Key Long Island City Subway Stations, posted by Michael549 on Mon Oct 24 12:35:39 2016. "In Queens - the proposed call is for both E and F trains to run as much as a full express as possible while M and R trains handle the by-passed local stations. Combined the M and R trains may or may not indeed provide the 15 trains per hour that the F-train does at those proposed to be by-passed local trains - but few riders would WANT to stay on-board such trains for the complete ride to/from Manhattan daily. Prior to the F-train regularly stopping at these local stations, the E-train did in the decades before the Archer Avenue segment opened. Meaning the residents were used to a direct to Manhattan express route. The experiment where R-trains were extended to 179th Street rush hours did not seem to go well. I suppose one of the complaints was that those R-trains were not as frequent as the F-train service. In any case, I'm told that riders would if possible abandon the local service as soon as possible to transfer to the express trains for the ride to Manhattan. See the riders are crazy for wanting quicker direct trips to Manhattan!" It depends. Sometimes the E and F trains are so congested that the Locals would be preferred if they didn't terminate at 71st Ave combined with a Conga Line. Also I think the M would get usage to from Manhattan, but the R train's slow crawl between Queens Plaza and the 60th Street tunnel is horrible. |
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