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Re: Keeping old South Ferry station open for the Lexington line after the 1 moves to its new station |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sun Jun 15 12:29:11 2008, in response to Keeping old South Ferry station open for the Lexington line after the 1 moves to its new station, posted by Wallyhorse on Sat Jun 14 04:48:49 2008. A shuttle train in that service in a waste of money. There are far more pressing demands on the transit authority than people wanting a short ride to Bowling Green.You're using the old station to solve a non-existent problem. If it didn't cost money maybe that would be OK. But it does. I can see a possible use of the loop in revenue service (not the station, just the track) when the WTC Towers open for business. If demand for #1 train service outstrips the ability to run trains to the new station (the new terminal will handle 24 tph, higher than the current station, and will berth all 10 cars, but the capacity constraint is actually governed by bother northern and southern terminals), the TA could run additional #1 trains through the Loop in a service where the last downtown stop would be the reopened Cortlandt St-WTC station. These trains would not stop at South Ferry; they'd use the track loop to return to WTC and then head northbound. Such a service would provide additional capacity to the WTC coming from the north, while the current service would cobtinue serving South Ferry station and the ferry boats. But I'm only speculating. The WTC reopening is still a ways off; Tower 1 is in progress but Towers 2 and 3 are behind schedule. |
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