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Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch extension from the Queens IND line |
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Posted by NYRailman on Wed Oct 20 16:42:00 2010, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks, posted by NYRailman on Mon Jul 12 15:45:11 2010. I recently found out that the MTA sometime ago actually started construction on a cut-off from the E/F/R/M line from Queens Blvd to connect with the Old Rockaway Line (which I still think is a great idea). It's just outside of the 63rd Drive train station. On the Queens-bound side you can see where they cut out the wall to create a switch to the line going toward the LIRR. On the Manhattan-bound side you can again see where the tracks would make a switch onto the Queens Blvd line just before you hit the 63rd Drive station. For people traveling from the Rockaways it would shave a whole 45 minutes off of their trip to Midtown if they ever decided to go thru with it. I do know that the communities of Rego Park, Parkside, Woodhaven and Ozone Park probably wouldn't be thrilled at all about it if the city ever claimed eminent domain and took back the ROW to do just that. It would ease the overcrowded Transit system a bit if it did happen. |
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