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Re: Question: Why No Station at 188th Street/Hillside Avenue? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 10 12:03:46 2017, in response to Re: Question: Why No Station at 188th Street/Hillside Avenue?, posted by New Flyer #857 on Thu Aug 10 10:23:26 2017. In terms of bus transfers, there is a logic to building a station in a less prominent location. It minimizes congestion because there isn't as much traffic other than the buses picking up and dropping off passengers. This is as opposed to forcing bus passengers to sit through congestion trying to get to a more prominent location like Parsons.Also, most of the 179th Street buses run to the 165th Street bus terminal, because it's better than using side streets to turn around and some people just want to go to downtown Jamaica, or transfer to buses that don't pass 179th. So extending to 188 will have minimal effect on bus service except for the ability to merge the Q17 with either the Q2 or Q3. It would only benefit the people who are within walking distance of a potential 188th Street station who are not within walking distance of 179th. It would also have to be built cut and cover, which would provide sufficient disruption to traffic along Hillside that it would be as bad as disrupting a longer stretch. So at that point it doesn't seem worthwhile to extend it without extending it to Francis Lewis or Springfield. |
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