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Re: Study Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail

Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jun 20 08:41:51 2006, in response to Re: Study Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail, posted by The Port of Authority on Mon Jun 19 23:12:49 2006.

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"If LRT was to arrive on the North Shore line, it would not affect the Tottenville mainline in any way."

But it would offer better options if the two lines were linked in some way. The most logical means to do this would be to convert the SIR to LRT and have them share a station at St. George.

Conversion of the Main Line would probably be easiest done in three phases:

1) linking the Bay Terrace - Tottenville stretch to a new express light rail route alongside Willowbrook Park, down the median of the Willowbrook Expwy, over the Bayonne Bridge, over the HBLR to Richard Av, then ducking under the NJ Tpk Ext to a portal on the edge of Liberty State Park, then diving under the Hudson to a lower Manhattan terminal (probably either WTC or Fulton St / Broadway - Nassau St).

2) conversion of the rest of the main line to LRT operation.

3) addition of various branches, for instance:
  • Main Line

    • St George - Stapleton - Targee St - Old Town

    • St George - Clifton - Bay St - Fr Capodanno Blvd - Oakwood - Bay Terrace

  • Willowbrook Park Line

    • Manhattan - College of SI - SI Mall - Richmond Av - Eltingville - Hylan Blvd

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