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Posted by Michael549 on Sun Nov 27 20:28:36 2016, in response to Why is the D an Express in Manhattan Overnight?, posted by nh153 on Sun Nov 27 18:44:34 2016. Please note two things:1) The existence of the #1 and #2 trains nearby on Broadway from about 96th Street to lower Manhattan which has often over time carried much more riders during the late night hours as compared to the nearby A-train Central Park West and mid-town stations. North of 96th Street (until the #3 was made a full-time service from 148th Street-Times Square) both the #1, #2-Lenox Avenue, and A-train Harlem & Washington Heights segments had service at every 20-minutes. 2) Even prior to the mid-1970's city's fiscal crisis even the mid-night hour AA local trains ran at every 20 minutes with both A and D trains running express. So it is not like something has radically changed on Central Park West over the decades. 3) Each of the "outer borough" lines - #1, #2, #4, #5/M/R-shuttles, #6, #7, G-train, L-train, J-train, Brooklyn/Rockaways A-trains, the alone segments of the D, E, F, N, Q, etc. = all have mid-night hour service at every 20 minutes. At the mid-night hours every body gets to wait a good period of time for a subway train - except along certain Manhattan sections to reduce the time it takes to transfer between trains. The damn near 20-years of the #6 Pelham shuttle with the #4 train as the only train serving the whole east-side of Manhattan was bad enough. Adding in those times when the #4 and #6-shuttle missed their connections was a pure horror show with traveling one had to do between levels on 125th Street! Mike |
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