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Re: A Question about the Lower Montauk Branch

Posted by andy on Wed May 6 15:09:11 2009, in response to A Question about the Lower Montauk Branch, posted by streetcarman1 on Wed May 6 11:37:19 2009.

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The reasons why this branch has had low service levels are:

(1) The branch cannot access the East River tunnels, so no through service to Manhattan was ever possible, unlike the Main Line stations such as Kew Gardens and Forest Hills. It only provides a west end terminus for non-electric trains.

(2) There were no great activity centers or job clusters at any of the intermediate stations. Only one, Richmond Hill, provided anything remotely close to a subway transfer.

(3) As another poster noted, the NIMBYs in neighborhoods along the r.o.w. killed proposals floated in the 1980s that would have electrified the line and merged it into the NYC subway, including service through the 63d Street Tunnel.

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