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Would 4-track express service be of any benefit for Northern Manhattan lines (1, A)? |
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Posted by El-Train on Thu Sep 6 01:41:46 2007 I ask this because time and time again, service on the 1 line here "upstate" (another question, do they really cut off tourist maps at 96th St and overall just ignore northern Manhattan as I've read so much about?) has been.........well what more can I say? You'd think that with the 9 train being canned that there would be much more frequent 1 trains running, but the headways are still annoyingly long (5+ minutes) and the trains are packed. Unfortunately local is the only way to go as far as Northern Manhattan residents go.There have been NYT articles as far back as 1906 (wish I could find it, dammit) already complaining about the slow and congested service on the Broadway line north of 96th, and more from the early part of the century with the (long-deceased) big-wigs speculating about adding a 4th track or at least making the most use of the existing middle track (which probably didn't work out well with the bottleneck that exists north of 96th). Never mind my rambling, I just wanted to here from you guys, if express service in Northern Manhattan would really be of benefit especially with the steady yuppifi-ahem, or were the original builders in the right by making service local up here? Lastly, has Northern Manhattan historically been forgotten or undermined? I only here of Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood whenever they bring up the bad old days or something rather petty, but it's damn hard to find any old photos and even moreso for the stations. "Upstate" indeed. |
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