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Re: Jamaica EL/Archer Subway

Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Feb 21 13:09:56 2018, in response to Jamaica EL/Archer Subway, posted by Wallyhorse on Wed Feb 21 12:51:33 2018.

According to literature I have read, it was the large business owners on Jamaica Avenue (Macy's, Gertz, et al) who wanted the elevated removed. They closed because once the elevated was gone, the people who lived in adjacent neighborhoods such as Woodhaven and Richmond Hill no longer had their convenient single-seat ride to the Jamaica Avenue shopping centers and would now have to drive there or take a slowpoke bus. In retrospect, the business owners screwed up a good thing.

I don't think the business owners' motives were racial. The money of minorities is just as green as everyone else's.

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