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Posted by mshull on Wed Nov 18 14:38:32 2009, in response to Questions from the eager & curious, posted by Mike W. on Wed Nov 18 00:49:34 2009. The best answer for #6 seems to be...Based on track layout in the area. For example 2s and 3s are local everywhere except the Broadway-7th Ave trunk. Therefore, Park Place, Fulton St, Wall St and Clark St are all marked local only. Those stops are considered off the trunk line proper (Chambers to 96th). North of 168th St on the 8th Ave line, the express tracks become the local tracks, so again the A is marked as local only. (The A runs local it's entire run anyway whenever the C isn't running.) The oddity I don't like about that system is that Fulton St, Wall St and Bowling Green on the Lexington line are marked as all trains stop. WRONG! Those should be marked as an express only stop; there are no local trains there or even tracks to serve them. As a historical note about the 6th Ave IND tracks serving Grand St and 2nd Ave; the 6th Ave Express turns off onto Chrystie St to serve Grand St. The local tracks continue on Houston St to serve 2nd Ave and continue to Brooklyn. Grand is another station without local tracks, like the southern Lex line. DeKalb Ave IS marked incorrectly. 4th Ave Express trains don't stop there, so the map kludges and shows the D and N as separate lines. The station was supposed to be a 4th Ave local stop, but because of its location and track layout, all Brighton trains stop there too (post 1956). The B and Q are both express in Manhattan, so I guess that's where they get the all stop icon from. #7's answer should be "Additional Weird Service." The 5 on the White Plains Rd line north of East 180th St and on the Eastern Parkway line south of Franklin Ave should still have a diamond. (Normal service to Dyre Ave and Flatbush Ave) Likewise the new 4 express in the Bronx should also. These are separate services in addition to the regular service. Another service missing the diamond is the A to/from Rockaway Park during rush hours, normal service to Lefferts and Far Rock. The D on the other hand is only on the express track in the Bronx when the B is running local there. In effect, that's "normal" service. |
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