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Re: Why are the Q and B local/express swapped Brooklyn/Manhattan? |
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Posted by Michael549 on Fri Apr 13 15:27:52 2018, in response to Re: Why are the Q and B local/express swapped Brooklyn/Manhattan?, posted by AlM on Wed Apr 11 16:53:37 2018. "I don't think a train on the northbound express track can access 53rd Street."In this particular case "the northbound express track" means the Sixth Avenue express tracks used by the B and D train routes. Since the beginning of the IND Subway in the 1930's there was a simply complex station at 53rd Street-SEVENTH Avenue - where B (and previously BB), D and E trains have ALWAYS stopped at since the opening of the Sixth Avenue line. (Prior to the opening of the Sixth Avenue in the 1940's only E trains served that station.) The use of 53rd Street as the trunk line for Bronx and Queens trains was in part of hold-over from replacing the IRT Sixth Avenue Elevated train line that connected with the Ninth Avenue Elevated line with a branch over 53rd Street, and to replace the Queens connection over the 59th Street Bridge with a new Queens Blvd branch line (and the rest of the Queens train services). Given this history, I do not know how one can make your statement. Mike |
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