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Re: Queens/Rockaway Super Express |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Fri Mar 14 17:27:27 2008, in response to Re: Queens/Rockaway Super Express, posted by Russ on Fri Mar 14 17:01:28 2008. Roosevelt Island is the much lesser issue. While a new station there would be nice, it really isn't the thrust of this idea any longer.The main one is that particular part of Manhattan, which is extremely heavily populated. I suspect a 79th street station at York and 1st avenues would be among the most heavily used non-CBD stations in the entire city, if not the most, and that is even with the two SAS stations at 72nd and 86th. What this station would do is allow the Queens-Rockaway Super Express to branch into both the SAS and the Broadway line via the 79th street station and a lower level station at 72nd/2nd, from where half the trains would go with the T down the SAS and the other half (this likely being a rerouted N train, with the W becoming the full-time Astoria service) going with the Q to 63rd/Lex and then down Broadway and to Coney Island. I could see 24tph out of this 79th street tunnel in this format, as it would give the SAS below 72nd half its trains from 125th street or the Bronx (T) and the other half from the Rockaways to Hanover Square (probably a K train), likely the Broadway Express would get half its trains from the Q and the other half from the Rockaway line. As for 86th street, that would be good for a future east-west line, however, that to me would not be as needed as you do a have a dropoff in density north of 86th street that you don't have between 72nd and 86th (though that is subject to change given how that area is also becoming more heavily populated). |
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