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Posted by trainsarefun on Mon Dec 28 21:09:15 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by NIMBYkiller on Mon Dec 28 13:37:37 2009. I was saying if your origin is on one side of Jamaica and your destination is on the other side, then conversion to subway is more expensive. Example, you live in East New York and work in Roslyn, or you live in Carle Place and work at Metrotech.Cry me a river for those dozen people (if that). In planning, one has to look at the net time-cost savings and you can't privilege people you prefer. By your reasoning, there was some guy living in Port Washington who commuted to Far Rockaway via the old LIRR Rockaway Branch so that should have held up NYCT takeover there too. And your example of Nostrand to ENY is totally unreasonable Why? Two stations right next to each other on mostly empty trains and the fare is $4.50-6.50 one way. That's what's unreasonable. Any combination except for FBA/Nostrand to Jamaica is unreasonable because it's all served by the subway. How do you get from Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica by subway? Several ways, mostly convoluted. LIRR has an alignment that isn't much used at all that could be pressed into service to benefit many people. Your opposition is purely driven by sentiment. Think of the imaginary guy who lives in Roslyn and commutes to East New York? What about the guys who want to get from one transit hub in Jamaica to another in the same City in Downtown Brooklyn? You don't give any consideration to them because of your evident biases. The line already runs every 30 mins off peak That's 2 tph middays. How many NYCT lines run 2 tph middays? |
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