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Posted by MATHA531 on Tue Jan 24 17:44:22 2017, in response to Re: Brighton Line, posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Tue Jan 24 14:57:52 2017. We fought this battle out in 2004 and although I no longer live in Brooklyn and no longer have a stake in this, it still seems to me then and now a group of Brighton riders were inconvenienced and while any change involved inconvenience to somebody, there were solutions then and I presume solutions now.The complaint I had then was not there was only Broadway service on the Brighton during the shoulder periods and weekends but it meant if you were heading say to NYU and W 4th Street (or heading home), to the MNH and Hayden Planetarium and at least to me, most importantly, Yankee Stadium you had an additional walk, stairs to climb and especially towards later in the day the missing of connections leading to fifteen minutes more travel time. The solution is/was always simple namely when the B is not running, the D does not bypass DeKalb. No more stairs. You get off the train at DeKalb and wait for the next train on the same platform and now you have access. The argument was the change at Atlantic/Pacific was no big deal (a walk pass the IRT platforms) and or up and downstairs at 34th Street. Yankee Stadium meant either the change at one of these two places or at Union Square. The annoying thing to me then was for nearly a century, trains coming off 4th Avenue could either stop or bypass DeKalb. It was made to seem that stopping the D at DeKalb when the B was not running was dangerous because of the condition of the switches (which have never been fixed). Again, I am long out of Brooklyn so it makes no difference to me and I am sure people have to accept time moves on and many just accept this is the way it is and has always been. Of course, since simply from a historical view, one of the purpose of the original connection of the IND and BMT was to put the D train on the Brighton line and ramp up the use of Sixth Avenue. Not complaining obviously just from a historical view of what happened. |
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