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Re: Would 4-track express service be of any benefit for Northern Manhattan lines (1, A)? |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Thu Sep 6 13:18:23 2007, in response to Re: Would 4-track express service be of any benefit for Northern Manhattan lines (1, A)?, posted by PATHman on Thu Sep 6 13:06:13 2007. 1) Having the 1's from Van Cortlandt Park run express from 137st to 96st. A short turn 1 would start at 137st and make all stops to 96st. Both branches would run every 6 minutes, meaning that 1 train service from 96st-South Ferry would operate every 3 minutes.That's a terrible idea! You're providing less service where MORE, NOT LESS, is needed! 137-96 would see one train every 6 minutes instead of one train every 3 minutes. And all so you can save some people 2 minutes travel time at most (it would likely be less, do to the merging, so say 1 minute)? The people at 125, 116, 110, and 103 would each be adding 3 minutes more to their commutes! So the overall time savings for everyone would be minuscule at best to very negative at worst! Please respond to this post to tell me that you understand this. OH, and I forgot, between 242 and 137 trains would be every 6 minutes as well. So you'd be adding 3 minutes to those people's commutes in order to save them 1 minute between 137 and 96. That makes no sense. Do you understand? 2) Having every other 3 train operate via the 1 express track up to Van Cortlandt Park. Terrible idea!!! VCP can't turn the additional trains!!!! And you'd be skipping so many stations!!!! Both options would vastly improve the quality of the service on the 1 line in upper Manhattan. No, as I have shown, they would be hell on earth for upper manhattan (1) riders. |
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