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Re: G Train Hearing at City Hall

Posted by Michael549 on Sat Apr 12 00:33:56 2008, in response to Re: G Train Hearing at City Hall, posted by KLCS on Fri Apr 11 23:33:00 2008.

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From a previous message: "How does running the E local screw riders? An extra 4 minutes (from Roosevelt) or 7-8 minutes (from Continental)?"

Here's a question for you. Given that the MTA in many years has been "scrapped for cash" where there have been service reductions and other measures taken to reduce costs, how come the MTA has never during the recent decades made either the E or F train all local in Queens during the day-evening portions of the weekend?

The MTA has access to the same (or better) transit ridership information for its subway stations, and we can be sure a great deal of access to the manpower requirements of each line. Just think about all of the various routings of trains over the years (and leaving midnight hour service out of the issue), just when has the MTA ever made the E and F trains all-local in Queens during the day-time hours? (I mean REGULAR SERVICE - G.O.'s and emergency re-routes do not count.)

Think about it. During the day-time hours of the weekend, all of the Bronx routes are all local. In Brooklyn for the longest time, #4 and #5 trains terminated at Atlantic Avenue on the weekdays/ends, and only since the 1980's, the #4 has run express on the weekdays/ends to Utica Avenue. Long-time Brighton Line users will say that there has not been a weekend express service in decades - maybe since Franklin Avenue through-routed trips to Brighton Beach - which would be before the D-train started to serve the Brighton line. Riders on the 4th Avenue line can count the N-train as a weekend day-time express - most maps show such express service ending about 9:30pm or so. Riders on the A and C - Fulton Street line now have A weekend express service, but that was not always the case. During the 1980's and before the A ran all local in Brooklyn on the weekends, and it is only until the mid-1990's did C-train service start to run on the weekends in Brooklyn, allowing A-trains to run local. The Astoria branch never had express service on the weekends in recent decades, and basically the same can be said of the Flushing line (baseball game and World's Fair specials excepted.)

The Queens Blvd line is the only line that has consistently kept its express service over the decades for the day-time hours on the weekends. It could be that the MTA knows that the ridership is there for the express service, and that many of its riders prefer the arrangement of the weekend express service.

So real bottom line isn't - "Gee isn't my idea a reasonable idea so please just agree with me" -- over the decades the MTA has had the opportunity to run its trains all local along Queens Blvd, but has consistently CHOSEN NOT TO.

Just my thoughts.
Mike

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