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Posted by trainsarefun on Wed Dec 23 17:36:54 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Dec 23 15:22:46 2009. A 34th Street shuttle connecting Penn Station to the east side of Manhattan, so that the "42nd Street Shuffle" can be eliminated.I would like to see a 34 St light rail someday, from river to river. A Union Turnpike trunk line off the QB line in Queens running from Queens Boulevard to the city line at Lakeville Road, so that St. John's University students can have a faster ride to and from Manhattan without enduring that pokey Q46 bus, and to give transit relief to untapped places like Kew Gardens Hills, Hillcrest, Fresh Meadows, Jamaica Estates, Bayside and Glen Oaks, none of which have never even sniffed a subway line. This proposal quickly runs into a branching problem. 15 tph Archer Av, 15 tph Hillside Av already. Plus, extending the Hillside Av Branch brings you further eat quicker, instead of largely duplicating an existing alignment to hit a lot of parkland. Reactivation of the LIRR Rockaway Line as a Penn Station-JFK link and to restore LIRR service to places like Rego Park, Woodhaven (which used to have two LIRR stations but now has none) and Ozone Park, which is underserved by the (A). I view restoration of the LIRR Rockaway Branch as disfavored. There is already a NYP-JFK link that was built at great cost. Restroing the Branch would also take resources that could achieve similar ends by taking over existing and wholly underutilized LIRR alignments like the Montauk Line in Queens. Extension of the Archer Avenue line to eastern Queens, as originally intended. Assuming takeover of the LIRR alignment, this seems sound. A tunnel to Staten Island to line the subway with SIRT and give Staten Islanders some deserved transit relief. Given the cost of the tunnel, how many years for this move to approach anything like payoff in reduced commuting time? SIR is a commuter railroad with fairly low ridership that doesn't have an optimal alignment to pick up ridership. There isn't much reason to suppose that the ferry hookup isn't optimal, all things considered. |
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