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Posted by jsun21 on Sun Apr 13 17:21:35 2008, in response to Re: G Train Hearing at City Hall, posted by SMAZ on Sun Apr 13 04:37:40 2008. I appologize for misreading the post on which Court St you wanted to use. To be honest the idea of short turning surplus W trains at Whitehall won't happend because any subtraction you do only robs Fulton riders of trains in the rush hour. I can tell you've put a lot of thought into thought into the idea of the W going up Fulton. However I just see the W as a bad choice, over the past 100 years there has been no direct 4th Ave service from Fulton, as a matter of fact there isn't even a transfer to 4th Ave on Fulton, but so far no one has complained...well not loudly. Riders that need 4th Ave can transfer to 6th at Jay St and walk two blocks. In my humble opinion, this cheap fix isn't worth saving people a two block walk. Although it creates a unique transfer it also creates a bottle neck on the platform which I brought up in my previous post. I feel a lot of people will jump off their W and immediately jump on the next 8th Ave train, people that may have otherwise stayed on the local are now all forced to fit on an already loaded train. The ridership has adjusted their life to fit their transportation, very few people will have a use for. I think this plan is a win-precieved win-and a tolerable loss.I'm wondering why you think that current Fulton patrons will want the W over the C given that they have nearly equal headways. Also turning the C train add 6 trains to the express line in addition to the 9 A trains. 15 Expresses and 6 locals seems a bit unfair, more so than the easy transfer Lefferts riders would have to make. In fact this thread was started because QB riders felt shafted getting clobbered by 3-4-5 expresses for one local, certainly doing that to another line for a transfer that isn't all that needed isn't fair. I really think we could make the Lefferts crowd happy if we held an A for the C at Euclid, It would require good timing at the Lefferts terminal but I think we can make it happen. |
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