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Posted by MainR3664 on Tue Dec 3 11:24:05 2019, in response to Andy's Almanac - December 1, posted by andy on Sun Dec 1 10:27:15 2019. Thank you. I have on my office wall a copy (original is in a drawer) of a 1963 subway map my mom gave me. The map seems to go out of its way to emphasize that the connection was only available Monday-Friday. I guess in those days, running a service over the BMT and IND really was a big, an sort of awkward deal- even 23 years after unification.I also note that running that service weekdays only presented a real inconvenience to people on weekends. Say on a summer Saturday in 1975 my mom wanted to take me from Steinway Street to Cortland, Rector, or Whitehall- we would have to board a GG, switch to an F at Queens Plaza (not hard), and then navigate the 34th Street complex (can be quite confusing for those who don't do it often) to find the RR. A real connection, as opposed to a mere convenience, was unavailable to a lot of people. Making this trip outside of weekdays involved two transfers, one of them a real pain. On the other hand, today's W is similar to the EE in that it's a supplemental Broadway local. But- losing it on weekends is less of a big deal. If I myself (mom is sadly no longer physically up to a subway ride) need to get from Ditmars Blvd to Whitehall, I can take the N and make one easy switch to the R anywhere between Lexington Ave and Prince Street. So the W is definitely nice to have- but losing it on weekends isn't nearly the big deal that losing the EE was. |
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