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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Thu Jul 30 02:00:38 2020, in response to Re: LIRR+Park Avenue, posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jul 29 09:17:09 2020. Agreed on the design flaw with ESA being a stub end terminal. I would actually propose hooking it into Penn South/Gateway and use it during peak hours primarily as a thru running with the shortest NJT and LIRR schedules. ESA goes from 24tph to 48tph and Penn South gets a capacity boost because it also becomes a thru-station. NJT gets more space at existing Penn since some peak trains are now re-directed to Penn South, freeing those track slots up at existing Penn.I'm against sending ESA down to FBA because 3rd Av between 34th and Chatham Sq is not where commuters are trying to get to. It does, however, give the added benefit of also increasing the capacity at FBA, but leaves Penn South/Gateway as low yield for the money spent. Screw it, go full balls to the wall. 4 upper ESA tracks to downtown & FBA as 2 track under 3rd Av, and 4 lower ESA tracks to Penn South. Everyone's happy, insanely robust transit network. |
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