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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Dec 27 00:20:36 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by NIMBYkiller on Sat Dec 26 17:10:35 2009. That completely misses Lake Success, a giant source of reverse commuters that currently have HORRIBLE mass transit accessYou can't be all things to all people. At all events, a NYC operation should serve a major trip generator in Queens - Queensborough Community College - instead of running across the wilds of Creedmoor Mental Hospital in order to get to Lake Success. We have much evidence that college students use transit for their trips; not much evidence that transit will garner much share of the Lake Success trips. Also, the civic groups in Lake Success will scream bloody murder if you bring them the subway. And I was suggesting it as operating via LIE to Queens College, then down to St Johns, then over to Lake Success. As I said, I think that hitting Queensborough Community College is vital, as NYCT planning documents clearly show, particularly since CUNY is expanding the community colleges to make up for our secondary school system's evident idiocy in most places. It would operate elevated via the LIE I don't see an el as being feasible. The NIMBYs will eat that alive. and at grade along the LIMP ROW Isn't that parkland near very expensive homes? The NIMBYs will not only eat that alive - they will regurgitate it and feast on the cud many times over. As for branching, I was proposing this as a branch off a new super express operating along the LIRR main line which would be tied into SAS I don't think that people would appreciate being shunted that far east, especially with the long or maybe even outside fare control transfers (like Lexington Av-63 St). It also kicks the problem into one of how to put two more tracks on the Main Line ROW, especially Winfield and west of there. hey...it's a wish list! Indeed.... |
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