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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Feb 11 12:44:49 2007, in response to Re: THE ORPHANS OF CHRYSTIE STREET, PART 1 THE RJ, posted by RedbirdR33 on Sun Feb 11 12:32:45 2007. Thanks for correcting the date of elimination. I used to have a service notification poster I stole from the Court St. platform, but I lost it. I'm surprised this route wasn't killed off when the N/R swap was made that May. The main reason for the Nassau St. R route (to provide Nassau St. service to riders of 4th Ave trains which did not stop at Dekalb during the rush) was pretty much negated when the M was shifted from the Brighton line to the West End line in April '86. Once the R swapped terminals with the N in Queens in May '87, it's headways increased and the secondary reason for it's existence (to augment the yellow R and provide extra local service between Pacific and 95th Sts) was eliminated. 4th Ave was choked with half-empty M and R trains in it's final months, while the other 3 routes were usually packed nearly to crush levels. I've also wondered what was the logic behind running the M express on 4th Ave and the N local from 1986 to 1994. This made the M virtually useless south of Pacific outside rush hours. And it made Sea Beach riders suffer even more after it was taken off the Manhattan Bridge. |
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