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Posted by J trainloco on Tue Jul 25 21:10:28 2006, in response to Re: My Route Suggestion of the Old Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, posted by David of Broadway on Tue Jul 25 20:40:48 2006. This might be an exception.Another exception -- mind you, I'm biased here, since I'd find this particular line very useful myself -- might be a light rail line from the Sheepshead Bay subway station (inside fare control) across the Bay and along the waterfront to the KCC campus. Of course, there are exceptions. Staten Island is a possible candidate. However, LRVs are at their best when they can run at street level in the outer, less populated areas and then duck into a tunnel for the dense, downtown areas (a la Philadelphia). The geography of NYC makes this extremely expensive (to the point where it doesn't make sense), and many of the corridors that are busy enough to merit LRVs cannot do so without severe adverse effects on regular traffic, or LRVs that would be stuck in amongst the traffic. |
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Re: My Route Suggestion of the Old Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch - David of Broadway - Tue Jul 25 21:14:30 2006
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