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Posted by Alex L. on Thu Sep 13 10:12:16 2007, in response to Re: Get Real; Staten Island Railway, posted by RonInBayside on Thu Sep 13 08:10:44 2007. But let's get real: If MTA announced it wanted to not only restore somne train service along the North Shore, but add rail service of some type (new line using subway equipment, or even LRT), in Staten Island, let's say perhaps a cross-Island line connecting North and South Shore and serving various neighborhoods - what would the reaction be?You're asking the wrong group of people. Counting myself, I believe we have four Islanders here on a regular basis. Personally, I live about a mile from the tracks, so restoration of service wouldn't do me much good even if they put a station in the ConEd parking lot between Bard and Davis. Anyway - go ask your questions here http://www.silive.com/forums/transit/ and see what kind of answers you get and then let us know. And for those who thought I would let him get away with it... The Fulton Transit Center... will fulfill a very useful function. Which is .. what exactly? SI residents are getting a nice new station at South Ferry that they are going to use Everyone is getting a nice new station and everyone will use it (well almost everyone - I work at Brooklyn Bridge and need a 4 or 5, so it doesn't do me any good at all) because there is no choice in the matter. So if I were you, I wouldn't complain so much It's a New yorker's God-given right to complain. A new station at South Ferry doesn't do much for the 'average' Staten Islander (470,000 people with 32,500 daily round trips on the ferry gives us about 15% of residents who would use it at most (and that assumes that every ferry trip is made by an Islander and they all use the new station)). |
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