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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 Wallyhorse on Tue Jun 17 05:04:42 2008, in response to Re: Keeping old South Ferry station open for the Lexington line after the 1 moves to its new station, posted by Russ on Mon Jun 16 12:52:15 2008. Russ:I understand where you are coming from, however, you also are dealing these days with people who likely don't want to have to walk the additional blocks from the ferry to get to Bowling Green for the 4/5 as I understand it, and would rather be able to get the Lexington Line directly from South Ferry. It's also not like this station is going to be demolished, as it still is going to be used to turn the 5 when it is not going to Brooklyn and also will be used when the 2/5 have to swap lines in one direction. That, coupled with giving riders from both the 7th Avenue and Lexington lines direct access to the Ferry terminal to me makes it worthwhile to keep the old SF terminal open after the new one does open, just substituting the Lexington Line as noted (including re-opening the short platform at BG for the old shuttle that would only run during rush hours, which would probably need only one 2-3 car train). And as for keeping the old SF station open when the new one opens, I suspect ridership would not be as high in the old SF station on normal days (as some would walk to BG), but on bad weather days and late at night (when in my scenario the 6, extended from BB would go there) would be used as much as it is now. |
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