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Posted by WillD on Tue Jan 22 22:05:12 2008, in response to Re: (R) Extension Idea, posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Jan 22 16:30:04 2008. So you want to give the SAS two Broadway express services and cut Astoria's service to one train which is local the length of Manhattan? That simply does not make any sense.Thanks to Dekalb you could easily change routes such that the R becomes the Broadway Express from Staten Island via the bridge with a northern terminus at 125th and Lexington, and the Q becomes the Broadway local from Coney Island via the tunnel to 71st and Continental while the N remains unaltered from today. The advantage of this is that not only does it slightly streamline SI commuters' trips to Midtown, but it gives Brighton riders a choice between the Q through downtown and the B to midtown. Of course by the time the R runs from SI to 125th on the SAS its nearly as long as just running to 71st and Continental. Thus there may be no point in swapping northern terminals in the name of keeping route lengths acceptably short. |
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