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Re: SI residents on MTA Fare Hike |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Nov 10 15:40:05 2007, in response to Re: SI residents on MTA Fare Hike, posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Sat Nov 10 14:26:52 2007. My proposal is simple. Just extend the already deep (1) train at South Ferry Terminal under the NY Harbor. On the SI-side, a PATH Exchange Place-type deep-level station could be built at St. George underneath Bay Street heading towards Tompkinsville. Then the SIR line could simply be left as-is, a new bus terminal could be built (that's already due), while the ferry terminal could be left for other usage or demolished.Of course the primary issues with this is costs as well as the funneling of all SI passengers to the (1) line and only the (1) line to to/from Manhattan. I would then expect the line to become rather crowded from the south end of the line as well (example: St. George would have 40,000 riders from the North Shore buses daily, 15,000 riders from the SIR mainline daily, 1,500 people walking daily, 300 cars parked, 14,000 from South Shore buses daily, and 18,000 from Mid-Island buses daily..these are rough estimate figures from some report a few years back on the SIR North Shore Line) Express bus passenger-miles aren't cheap, and that's a very vaild point. But sending the West Side IRT local to SI is a strange move, since it would have to create a difficulty by introducing much longer station spacing south of South Ferry. Why do you think that SI requires the frequency-of-service supplied by the 1 route? |
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