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Re: Supplementing Roosevelt Island/Super Express to Queens |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Tue Jan 29 05:57:18 2008, in response to Re: Supplementing Roosevelt Island, posted by Michael549 on Mon Jan 28 18:17:43 2008. Perhaps these efforts by elected officials, provided they can be educated about the realities of not being able to expand service at Roosevelt Island's current station might give them major incentive to look for funding themselves to build a new tunnel on the northern end of Roosevelt Island that would lead into as I suggested 79th Street, with in Manhattan a new station at 79th Street and York-1st Avenues (which would address the needs of a lot of people on the UES who would be too far from either of the currently planned SAS stations) before joining the Q at 72nd/2nd and following the Q to Broadway (as noted the N would be how I do it with the W becoming the full-time Astoria service).Since it is clear that it would be next-to-impossible to add any additional trains onto the current Queens Blvd. lines (as evidenced by the G being cut back to Court Square), this new tunnel can eventually become the "super express" via a new tunnel that can go to at least Roosevelt Avenue (a new lower level under the QB tracks since it's been made clear the existing-but-never-used Roosevelt Avenue Station platform could not be used for such an operation), if not past there under the current QB lines to 71st-Continental as an express, and if possible, continuing under the current QB tracks to a terminal at Union Turnpike. This might be what those elected officials, if properly educated would need to look at doing in lobbying those necessary for more transit funds to build such stations. |
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