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75th Avenue (Re: What Are the Now-Abandoned Stations You Once Used Regularly?) |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Mar 11 14:29:54 2021, in response to Re: What Are the Now-Abandoned Stations You Once Used Regularly?, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Mar 11 00:50:28 2021. If saving money on platform and track maintenance is an important criterion for closing a station, then 75th Avenue on the QB line should have been closed a long time ago. In the many years that I lived in Queens and rode the QB line, I almost never saw anyone get on or off at 75th Avenue, or anyone on the platform waiting for a train. In fact, the other passengers used to groan when they felt the train hit the switch from the express to the local track east of 71st-Continental Ave station.Its pretty clear that 75th Avenue was built simply to put a station about halfway between Union Turnpike and 71st-Continental. There really isn't anything in the area that justified a local station. The stats bear this out - in 2019, Union Turnpike was the 48th busiest station in the system and 71st-Continental was 42nd. 75th Avenue ranked all the way down at #351. Clearly, people would rather walk the few blocks either to Union Turnpike or 71st-Continental Ave's, where the service is much better. |
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