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Re: Well, this is interesting... (Re: South Ferry (1) Train Station Fix Could Take Up To 3 YEARS!!!) |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Wed Feb 6 15:48:03 2013, in response to Re: Well, this is interesting... (Re: South Ferry (1) Train Station Fix Could Take Up To 3 YEARS!!!), posted by Snarf368 on Wed Feb 6 15:00:23 2013. Right!Even before those came out, I felt there would be political pressure to get the old station open, and I still think we could see the MTA taken to court to force it. For people coming from Staten Island, that extra time walking is a big deal, plus in bad weather it makes it a bigger problem. It might be easier to instead of rebuilding the current SF to first see if it's possible to extend the old station to accommodate 10-car trains. No one could have realistically thought a storm like Sandy was possible even at the time it was planned to shut down the old (1) station at South Ferry, but as said many times, the lesson learned from Sandy is that everything that might have been discarded years ago needs to be put back on the table (and that includes potentially rebuilding some of the demolished EL lines in ways to make them both quieter than their predecessors and to better withstand storms like Sandy). Like I also said, I would NEVER have shut the old SF station down in the first place, instead, looking to update it and Bowling Green to ADA standards so I could have the Lexington Line operate on it after the (1) moved to the much-needed current SF (BG-SF shuttle weekdays until 4/5 to Brooklyn frequencies are reduced, (6) all other times, (5) when not running to Flatbush Avenue). The main side benefit of that as noted before would be increased Lexington Avenue Line service between Brooklyn Bridge and Bowling Green outside of weekdays since the (6) would at all other times also go there as opposed to terminating at Brooklyn Bridge, which would be a big help given the huge jump in residential population in lower Manhattan since the BG-SF shuttle last operated in 1977. |
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