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Re: (G) cut from Queens Boulevard |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Dec 22 12:06:44 2007, in response to Re: (G) cut from Queens Boulevard, posted by RonInBayside on Sat Dec 22 11:54:08 2007. To take up the points in your post in reverse order, if fumigation hadn't enacted as the policy, there would be something like 30 tph capacity at Forest Hills.The new trade-off is that the offer from NYCT is more frequency-of-service in exchange for a shorter route in the northbound (eastbound?) direction, while in the southbound (westbound?) direction, service is extended for a longer route to Church Av. I tend to think that the new route and frequency of service will be nice, except possibly in the overnight, when there will be only 3 tph at Ely Av for the connection to Queens Blvd local service. So I would modify the proposal such that G trains run to Queens Plaza late nights, so that the connection to Queens Blvd local service would be twice as easy, with 6 tph. In terms of my comment, "The G route has arguably been surreptitiously stalked and silently killed at various intervals over the years, anyway," what I meant by that is that the G has already been truncated for large periods of time, especially weekends, such that it didn't operate on Queens Blvd. Arguably then, this service change isn't so extreme, since for quite some amount of the time for the past few years, G trains didn't go to Forest Hills anyway. |
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