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Posted by Michael549 on Tue Jul 3 13:03:15 2007, in response to Re: The (V) Still Looking For Love And Respect, posted by R30A on Tue Jul 3 11:56:49 2007. The current arrangements for the 63rd Street tunnel waa a COMPROMISE, and not what was intended in the original plans for the Second Avenue subway and the Queens-Super Express. While it seems that everybody is moaning and groaning about the F-train on 63rd Street they do not realize that it was the NIMBY actions of Queens neighborhoods and the actions of politicians such as Geraldine Ferraro and Alphonse DaMatto (spelling) who waged to cut the funding for the Queens-Super Express route. As well as the federal government and the city's fiscal crisis, and LIRR that killed the planned subway extensions past Archer Avenue.So while some folks quibble about which train letters should travel a well-worn path to Brooklyn, really important transit policy decisions and deals are made in places and ways far and above such quibbles. The basic transit issues are simple - there are over-crowded transit lines, little real cash to pay for improvements, the reality that transit riders do not want to pay higher fares, the fact that the total amount of fares paid does not cover the actual cost of the service, the building of subway lines is expensive, NIMBY concerns by the powerful, and a whole mass of people who just do not care about mass transit because they have their cars and they really do not give much thought to anything else that does not make their cars go. Mike |
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