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Re: Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn College extention |
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Posted by MATHA531 on Fri Oct 20 09:09:59 2006, in response to Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn College extention, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Wed Oct 18 16:18:32 2006. Boy...can't believe what my reply probably started...But the bottom line is that obviously there will be no further construction of subway lines in the outer boroughs for whatever the reason. My whole point is that so much that goes on in New York revolves around Manhattan but it really is sad that for a city that prided itself on its subway system and claimed the subway system is the greatest in the world, there has really been no new lines opened since the IND was completed in 1940 and nobody can deny that large portions of Brooklyn and Queens have been treated like 2nd class citizens for all these many years. And yes, to their credit, the MTA did for the most part allow transfers from bus to subway (which is hardly novel in the world BTW) but it still means that if you're unfortunate to live in these large areas, you still have a wait for a bus, perhaps a 20 or 25 minute ride to the nearest subway station and then a further wait for a train. And even a place like London in the much more recent past, added the Jubilee line...and Paris added I think it was Metro Line 14...in NY perhaps we'll have the SAS not even extending into the Bronx or Brooklyn and that's it. As I said, if the power outrage that hit Queens had hit midtown Manhattan, do you think it would have taken a week to restore power? I assure you the power would have been back within 24 hours and if full power restoration would have been impossible, then enough emergency generators would have been brought in to see the lights quickly came back on. Unfortunatel, all the bitching in the world is not going to change this...because as I said, Marie Antoinette indeed did say, "Let them take a bus to the train." |
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