|
|
| Re: Why were the B and D swapped in 2004? (819916) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Why were the B and D swapped in 2004? |
|
|
Posted by zac on Tue Aug 11 17:36:33 2009, in response to Re: Why were the B and D swapped in 2004?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Aug 11 13:33:47 2009. At the time of the switch I read an article, likely in the NYTimes, about the thinking. Yes, the Brighton riders preferred the Q as the full time train, after living with either Bway or 6th Ave for the prior x number of years. (I was surveyed myself.)Then, when that routing was set, they realized they had 2 part time lines, the B from BPB to 34th, and the Q diamond from 57th to BB. So they combined them into one. That left the D to switch over to the West End as the full time line there. This made the weekday vs. weekend patterns the same, with just the part-time B (and rush hour M) the exception. Now if they would only have the D stop at DeKalb when the B isn't running... |
|
|
|