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Re: My Route Suggestion of the Old Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch

Posted by R36 #9346 on Tue Jul 25 14:09:04 2006, in response to My Route Suggestion of the Old Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, posted by Transit Guy on Thu Jul 20 21:02:52 2006.

OK, here's my proposal, given that unlimited funds and no NIMBYs.

PHYSICAL
* The extension of the Rockaway Line northward will be SUBWAY, and will be two tracks north of the Liberty Avenue junction.
* The Liberty Avenue Junction will be reconfigured so that the line to the Liberty Avenue El would occupy the Express tracks. The southbound local track will fly over these two tracks as they curve towards the Rockaway Blvd station, and will be at grade with the northbound local track as the line crosses under the Liberty Avenue El.

* The line would continue north along the ROW, with stations at Ozone Park-101 Av, Brooklyn Manor-Jamaica Avenue, Woodhaven-Atlantic Avenue, and Parkside-Metropolitan Avenue

* As the line approaches White Pot Junction, the line widens to three tracks, and almost immediately the two outer tracks dive underground, to connect with the Queens Boulevard Line local tracks north of the 63rd Drive station.

* The third track will follow the LIRR right-of-way south of the four existing tracks, (hereafter referred to as the Queens Boulevard Super Express track) all the way to Queens Boulevard, curve west onto Queens Boulevard as an el, and diving under Queens Boulevard between 57th and 55th Streets. The line would continue under Queens Boulevard, passing under the Flushing Line elevated line, and later the Sunnyside Yards, splitting into two tracks under the Yard, and tying in with the 63rd Street line. Trains would operate at a maximum speed of seventy miles per hour between White Pot Junction and the 63rd Street line.

SERVICE
* The Rockaway Park Shuttle service would be eliminated.
* V train service would run local at all times, from 2nd Avenue/Houston Street to Rockaway Park/Beach 116 Street.
* Special services would run during the rush hour (and possibly midday, depending on demand). The line would run with alternating trips from either end of the Rockaways, up the Rockaway Line to the Queens Boulevard Super Express track, then down either the Broadway Line to Whitehall Street (<R>), or down the 6th Avenue Line to 2nd/Houston (<V>), or World Trade Center station (<H>).
* G service would be extended to 71/Continental at all times, due to the extra capacity released by rerouting the V to Rockaway Park. All of these services (possibly with the exception of the <R>) would run local in Manhattan.

EXTRA TRANSFERS
* The Woodhaven station, located on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Avenue line, would be re-opened.

* A transfer passage would be constructed along the Jamaica Avenue El to connect the Brooklyn Manor station with the 104th Street station on the J.

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