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Posted by trainsarefun on Mon Dec 28 22:38:29 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Dec 28 21:34:59 2009. Your observations on the zoning issues are sound. I would add, though, that if they leave in a little play in the joints, if you play your lots right, you can really surprise the community board with something as of right now and then, and the reaction is just, "What the fu...."The more convoluted the zoning map, the easier to pull such a trick. I'm rather surprised that the Pathmark was snuck into the community in a manufacturing zone... I'm sure you mean the "Pathmark Plaza"....Springfield & Merrick Blvds? That was not done as of right. Way before my time, but it was a big political battle. The endgame involved the City Council essentially making an exception, which it did, that allowed a food store of that size - Pathmark - to be the complex's anchor tenant. By contrast, nearby Springfield Gardens Plaza, done by Forest City Ratner around 2001, was as of right. Despite being an interested party and inheritor of a property on Hillside Avenue Nothing wrong with that! I look at turning most of the bus network into Southeastern Queens into a streetcar network with tunnels for transfers into the subway. I just don't see it happening. There is pretty good penetration with the LIRR; if that could be turned into something beneficial for the area, that would do a world of good, at least in terms of knocking off chunks of commute time. Regardless, I look at this light rail line as a half-assed light rail replacement for the Q88 The LIE one, that is? I wouldn't say that, although there is a lot of overlap, to be sure. Just out of sheer curiosity, I wonder what has the worst impact on operating costs, the QM2/2A/3, or paying for runs from ESA to turn at Great Neck and telling the locals to make due with a local bus. All you'd have to do really would actually be to run more local bus service, especially on the Q13/16/28 I would think. Maybe run some current express trains on the Port Washington Branch local. I lived there and did the local bus/LIRR deal. More reliably faster, albeit much more expensive. Then again, most of my neighbors were doing pretty well, and if not, the bus gets to Main St with a free transfer there. My former neighbors, though, they have political clout far in excess of their numbers. I'll add that I have a friend who lives in Flushing. Great view and when you look toward College Point Depot and the expressway there, the sight of so many buses, mostly deadheading I guess, is maddening! |
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