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Re: May 11, 1975. . .End of the Culver shuttle |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sun May 13 17:48:45 2007, in response to Re: May 11, 1975. . .End of the Culver shuttle, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun May 13 16:07:19 2007. That's an interesting question. Did Macy's feel that having poor blacks gettingon and off trains nearby scare off its white suburban customers (I'm putting this in crude, base terms on purpose)?Myrtle was in bad shape, but the route itself did merit a train and probably still merits a train today if you could find the money. The Archer Av line is spilled milk. There's a line there now, it's more flexible than it was before in terms of routing for the passenger, it's got the LIRR integrated into it and it has AirTrain. As I've said many times, extend it to Merrick/Archer and you've got the geographic reach of the old El. Even the loss of the Third av El is finally being addressed. At some point we should simply look forward and say "What can we do today?" Well, MTA has $10.1 billion worth of expansion proijects underway right now and another $2 billion to start later this year (the 7 extension which is funded). Things could be worse. You could be in Philly where the extension of the Broad st and MFL subways is just talk and no action. |
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