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Re: [PHOTO] Re: NYDN: Queensway (Park) Yes, Rockaway Beach Line Not At This Time. |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Sep 20 07:28:26 2022, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Re: NYDN: Queensway (Park) Yes, Rockaway Beach Line Not At This Time., posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Sep 19 17:08:09 2022. NYC's technical boundaries include practical suburbs that have no interest in being anything else. The dropoff in density only a few miles outside of Manhattan is dramatic. This is why it's often pointed out that some European cities that have practically no skyscrapers are "more dense" than NYC -- because those low-density areas get counted in the figuring.In terms of desire for a subway, that goes neighborhood by neighborhood. Thinking of Northeast Queens, for example, a lot of these neighborhoods will complain if a new house goes in that's even one story higher than the rest, or stands out in any way, so I doubt they'd enjoy seeing a subway entrance pop up. I suspect there are a lot of reverse-commuting situations, too - where those using the transit to a neighborhood aren't necessarily the people living in that neighborhood. The Breezy Point Coop runs some kind of van from the Q35 stop at Roxbury into Breezy Point proper and I hear that most passengers are not residents of the area. That's not to say I don't think a subway should be built to the city limits, but I'm not opposed to, say, finishing the 2nd Ave subway, before worrying about those places that aren't yet clamoring for transit. People in Douglaston and Little Neck, for example, tend not to have the same transit needs as the city's CBDs. |
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