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Re: LIRR+Park Avenue |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jul 29 09:17:09 2020, in response to Re: LIRR+Park Avenue, posted by NIMBYkiller on Tue Jul 28 20:25:49 2020. The entire ESA was a badly conceived project. Its mushrooming cost has drained the MTA of capital funds for many more worthwhile projects.First, terminals are wasteful because of the turnaround problems. Second, running under Park Avenue increased the cost due to the need to support Metro North's tracks. Both could have been avoided, had the MTA considered a loop down Third Ave that went back under the East River and connected to Flatbush Ave tracks and headed back to Jamaica. The loop would have provided twice the capacity with 24 tph in each direction for a total of an 48 tph inbound rush hour trains. There would have been modest through stations in Midtown and Downtown. An extra 48 tph, instead of the ESA's extra 24 tph could have provided local service for Eastern Queens. The Downtown East River Tunnel could have been double decked with a level for the subway. The subway tunnel could have been used to fill in a gap for the never built SAS second system. Possibly connecting the 8th Ave local tracks to Court St. |
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