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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 WillD on Thu Sep 6 14:29:05 2007, in response to Re: Would 4-track express service be of any benefit for Northern Manhattan lines (1, A)?, posted by Michael549 on Thu Sep 6 11:41:45 2007. The South Ferry project is a make-work project, it's there to gulp down the federal government's Dubya-Fun-Bucks that'll expire before too long. The same is true of Fulton Transit Center, practicality was no object, otherwise nobody in their right mind would spend nearly a billion dollars on a subway station. There were far cheaper and easier ways to get the same result in both cases with less potential for capacity reductions in the former case. Why is the MTA spending nearly half a billion dollars to potentially reduce capacity on the 1 line when their own projections show it as being over capacity in the next 30 years? It's not a local to the folks north of 96th, it's every bit as vital as the "important" express trains south of there. I know you SIers are smitten with your "new" station, since it's probably the closest you'll get to your own subway in the next 50 years, but the MTA should be looking to increase service into Lower Manhattan with the federal funding, not shunt riders into new versions of existing stations. The Water St Subway would have allowed the V train to run straight into Lower Manhattan rather than terminating at 2nd Ave. |
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