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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Dec 26 12:46:59 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by rashidas on Sat Dec 26 12:03:35 2009. In an earlier post someone wrote that Astoria residents are dead against an extension of the R from Ditmars Blvd. to LGA.The N/W routes, the Astoria Line, you mean? Would they tolerate an Airtrain over the Grand Central from LGA to Astoria Blvd? 'Tolerate' is an interesting word. If you told them that they had to tolerate one or the other alternative, then they would have to make a choice. That doesn't imply endorsement of the choice, though. Personally, I think that rapid transit to LGA is overkill, and not even friendly to the people we would want to use the service at that. (My idea of getting to the airport doesn't involve schelpping around a subway car with luggage). LGA doesn't/can't handle the larger aircraft. And if you apply the AirTrain percentage of users at EWR or JFK to the smaller passenger count at LGA, the number you obtain is quite small. So either I would say that the LGA issue is a non-issue or that if you really want to provide a decent service, create an LIRR spur from SHEA to LGA; alternatively, in the event that the City's newest Queens crush actually sees development, branch the Flushing Line, although I'm much more iffy on this, because of the burgeoning development in Flushing and the relatively easy fix with the money that would be blown on an LGA extension of a proper northern Flushing Line terminal. |
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