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Re: G Train to be cut back to Court Square permanently |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jan 19 06:09:21 2008, in response to Re: G Train to be cut back to Court Square permanently, posted by checkthedoorlight on Thu Jan 17 12:18:23 2008. The next step the MTA needs to take to fix the G is installing SOME kind of transfer between Brodaway G and Lorimer St J/M. These stations are almost right on top of each other, and there are even street signs pointing you between the two stations, yet you can only do that transfer with an unlimited cardTruthfully, what should have been done is that before the Hewes and Lorimer stations were renovated on the M/J, they should have instead built a brand new station over at Union/Broadway, which is directly on top of the G. All the money spent on those renovations of Lorimer and Hewes could have been put towards this new station. When completed, they could have abandoned the Hewes and Lorimer stations, and removed them. A side platform station would be easy to add to the el without a major problem with keeping traffic running. Hewes is awfully close to Marcy, and properly placed stairways from Union-Broadway could have replaced them pretty well. This would have allowed a prety easy in system transfer between the G and the M/J there. It would have made one complex, instead of three seperate stations, thus allowing the removal of two fare control areas, and thus saving by instead of having three station agents, the new complex only needed one. In addition, there would only be one elevated station to maintain as opposed to two, thus saving money in the long run. Both of those stations were in such bad shape before the renovation that it wouldn't have been a big deal, they spent a lot of money renovating them. But of course now it's water under the bridge that they spent all that money renovating those two stations. |
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