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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Dec 27 16:49:21 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Dec 27 16:01:44 2009. Maybe it's me, but I still see Queens Village future as a sleepy, quiet safe neighbourhood with very little changing unless the city ever decides to re-zone the industrial areas immediately south of the LIRR ROW or some of the real old homes are demolished and redeveloped into MDUs.I've hung around with developers too long but that was more or less what I was thinking. I'm not expecting it to turn in Flushing or LIC, mind you, but there's room for progress and quite a bit of dead wood there. It's niche is as one of those neighbourhoods for those who want single family homes, but can't afford Northeastern Queens or further east, but would prefer not to live in a majority black neighbourhood. I'm not demographics expert, but Queens Village seems to lie on a belt that extends from roughly Jamaica to maybe East Meadow where there is a sizeable black population but also many other demographic minorities too. Mostly single-family homes, retail strips at major road crossings. Mass transit is almost exclusively bus, whether NYCT, MTAB, or LIB. As a former QV rider, I always found it rather interesting watching the Hempstead trains slowly make their way through QUEENS and arrive at QV late, then magically show up at Jamaica on time. That's the trick - I've seen it many times. Also the other trick where the train leaves Jamaica late after the cross-platform meet, doesn't overspeed, and ends up at FBA on time. There's always the clunkier option of using the lightly used Clearview Expressway. I think that's a mostly useless alignment, though. Not much there until you get up near the water. Plus heading south at the Clearview causes one to miss the garden apartment complexes in Oakland Gardens, a large high school, and Queensborough Community College. Nice try trying to do something with the extra capacity on the Clearview. There's a part of me that wishes that the TBTA had replaced the Whitestone with modern span that would have allowed for a light rail line as part of the design There was a proposal to include a rail component, but you know who didn't want any such provision delaying his timetables. I don't see it happening nowadays, not without huge changes in development. Still, I feel sorry for those Q44 bus commuters, especially with the low floor buses now. |
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