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Re: Advocacy for Rockaway Line

Posted by RonInBayside on Tue Jul 25 13:14:21 2006, in response to Re: My Route Suggestion of the Old Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, posted by Nyctransitman on Sat Jul 22 15:07:01 2006.

I read that page. Most of the other links are discussions of projects with broad support, like ESA, which is already under construction, or the WTC work. The Rockaway page is 14 people with a crude hand-drawn map who were provided the opportunity to go work on a project that currently has zero political support from anyone with real influence and cannot be implemented until the LIRR 63rd st line is completed.

This is a free country and people can put up on the web what they like. It's commendable that the host organization has provided them with a pulpit in the church, even if the pews are mostly empty.

When they get political support, as in members of the State Assembly or Senate, and City Council, esp. in the area of the proposed route, who will stand up and advocate for it and ask that MTA add it to the Capital Plan, then I will pay closer attention to it.

Otherwise, it's just a dozen people in a room doodling on a map. But that's OK with me. Nothing wrong with that.

If anyone here would like to join them, I'm sure they would welcome your participation. By all means give them your input.



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