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Re: Why are the Q and B local/express swapped Brooklyn/Manhattan? |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Apr 11 14:36:18 2018, in response to Re: Why are the Q and B local/express swapped Brooklyn/Manhattan?, posted by Joe V on Wed Apr 11 11:17:12 2018. The IND wasn’t necessarily designed to provide speed on its express routes so much as it was to provide capacity on a 4 track line. As originally planned, the SAS was supposed to actually have SIX tracks in some places since it would have been the only east side subway line replacing 2 elevated lines while on the west side, the 2 elevated lines were replaced by 2 subway lines, the 6th and 8th Ave. What is interesting is that in Queens, the branches to the Rockaways were planned to connect to the local tracks with no way to conveniently connect them the the express tracks. Had the connections at Roosevelt and/or 63 Dr been built the travel time to the Rockaways from midtown Manhattan would have definitely exceeded the time it takes by using the current route through Bkln. |
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