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Re: (KK) And (QJ) Skip-Stop Service 1968-1972 |
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Posted by Joe V on Sun Dec 6 08:17:29 2009, in response to Re: (KK) And (QJ) Skip-Stop Service 1968-1972, posted by Andy on Sat Dec 5 16:23:21 2009. A lot of politics must have gone into picking who got what.Eldarts Lane was an A&B stop because of Franklin K. Lane High School. It was useful before local community school boards were set up around 1969 when a lot of Richmond Hill and Woodhaven kids could have just as well have gone there as Richmond Hill High. By the late 1960's FKL caused a spike in the crime rate. It also lead my parents to move to Nassau County after my elemetary school days in 1968. The "15" trains were 8 car R16's for at most 2 hours per rush period, including the limited skip-stop period. The "14" could be either 5 or 6 cars, either R16's or Standards were fair game. That explains the imbalance of ridership - it matched train length. |
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