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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Nov 23 16:14:54 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. See that, other day you were lamenting that the Rockaway viaduct was being neglected at the expense of the Smith 9th viaduct. MTA/NYCT hears you too! |
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Posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 16:50:21 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Nov 23 16:14:54 2007. See that, other day you were lamenting that the Rockaway viaduct was being neglected at the expense of the Smith 9th viaduct. MTA/NYCT hears you too!Whay could I say your right. |
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Posted by FarRock on Fri Nov 23 17:40:13 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. I guess the renovations just started. That can explain why workers were throwing debris off the el yesterday. |
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Posted by trains61 on Fri Nov 23 19:01:21 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. Good news. Thanks for posting the update. |
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Posted by metropod on Fri Nov 23 20:18:20 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. I'd say the train that chewed up beach 60th opened thier eyes. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 20:39:20 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. The Arverne By the Sea development helped spur this. The developer is bringing more affluent people to the Rockaways and they won't put up with crumbling stations. |
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Posted by Forest Glen on Fri Nov 23 21:29:37 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 20:39:20 2007. Hopefully Arvene By The Sea increases ridership on the Rockaway Park shuttle. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Fri Nov 23 21:46:49 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Forest Glen on Fri Nov 23 21:29:37 2007. Hopefully Arvene By The Sea increases ridership on the Rockaway Park shuttle.Isn't Arverne to the east of Hammel's Wye, i.e., on the Far Rockaway branch of the line? |
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Posted by Kriston Lewis on Fri Nov 23 21:47:28 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 20:39:20 2007. That's good. Maybe that will prompt the city to give Mott Avenue a little TLC. |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Nov 23 21:54:45 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by metropod on Fri Nov 23 20:18:20 2007. That had absolutely nothing to do with it. All it did was chew up the wooden rubbing board and platform edge. Had nothing to do with what holds up the structure from falling down to frade level! The Rockaway structure renovation was in the cards long before that incident. |
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Posted by Railman718 on Fri Nov 23 21:58:22 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by metropod on Fri Nov 23 20:18:20 2007. I'd say the train that chewed up beach 60th opened thier eyes.Um no it didnt... That was Planned a while ago to get the work done... |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 22:04:46 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Fri Nov 23 21:46:49 2007. Forest Glen is onto something, though. Wouldn't it be nice if MTA ran a shuttle across the Peninsula in both directions (vs the triangle route they used to)? You could do that even with a small stretch of single track involved. The idea would be that trips like a subway-bus trip to Jacob Ris Park would be possible. |
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Posted by The Port of Authority on Fri Nov 23 22:13:54 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 22:04:46 2007. You've already got the Q22 bus fulfilling that role, and I don't think that the Q22 has enough ridership to warrant its replacement by a subway shuttle.A subway-bus trip to Jacob Riis Park is already possible. One could take the 2/5 to Flatbush Avenue/Brooklyn College and get on the Q35, or the shuttle to Rockaway Park/Beach 116th Street and then the Q35 to the park. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Fri Nov 23 22:16:44 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 22:04:46 2007. Wouldn't it be nice if MTA ran a shuttle across the Peninsula in both directions (vs the triangle route they used to)?I suppose that it all depends on demand, I guess - is there enough to merit a supplemental, redundant Rockaways service? |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sat Nov 24 00:19:13 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. The closest subway station to Arverne by the Sea is Beach 67 St. We'll see what MTA does there. Beach 67th St is the first stop on the beach after the Wye, to the east.I assume the Arvberne by the Sea's transit plaza (touted in its advertisements) means a driveway of some sort that the bus pulls up at or where a shuttle van run by the development takes you to the subway. Some of the townhiomes will be several blocks from a station. The sales office to the Arverne by the Sea development is on Beach 73rd St. |
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Posted by FarRock on Sat Nov 24 10:18:44 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 22:04:46 2007. I had that same idea before. A shuttle like that is needed during school days since theres alot of schools out here. I take the train over the Q22 to my school in Rock Park. The Q22 gets crowded quick and if you live on stops further away from Mott then you're in trouble because the bus will probably skip you.In the AM rush 2 trains every hour can run from Far Rock to Rock Park. In the PM rush 2 trains every hour can run from Rock Park to Far Rock. Believe it or not, there's alot of people who take the train to get from one side of the Rock to another. The shuttle gets the most ridership during the school year, almost as much during the summer. The only thing is you have to leave the penisula and wait on an island just to get to the other side and that's inconvenient. |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Nov 24 10:53:20 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. What's the story behind Mott Avenue station ? I don't think that was the LIRR station through their last day of service (it was between the 2 existing Far Rockaway stations), and initial TA service went only to Wavecrest. How did they shoehorn that island platform into the structure ? |
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Posted by Newkirk Plaza David on Sat Nov 24 10:57:00 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by RonInBayside on Fri Nov 23 20:39:20 2007. The Arverne By the Sea development helped spur this. The developer is bringing more affluent people to the Rockaways and they won't put up with crumbling stations.Incorrect, these Rockaway stations were: 1. In the plans since the 2003-2008 Captial Plan was adopted, and. . . 2. The successful prior grouping of other outdoor station renovations, such as the Woodlawn, Whie Plains Road and Broadway/BMT line stations led MTA/NYCT to realize that the Rockaway stations can all be done simultaneously while the funds were being allocated for this work. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Nov 24 11:08:03 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Joe V on Sat Nov 24 10:53:20 2007. What's the story behind Mott Avenue station ?There's probably a story or even two there, since we're given a 1.5 year gap in opening dates between NYCT's Wavecrest and Far Rockaway stations. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Nov 24 11:10:15 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by FarRock on Sat Nov 24 10:18:44 2007. Adding trains during peak hours can be tough. First, you need the cars to spare, and also, the terminal capacity. The timetables would also have to be revised, since one doesn't want to create congestion via this additional service pattern. Arguably, the fiscal argument is bolstered for this change in service if some Q22 buses are truncated such that they don't run east of Rockaway Pk.(I imagine that population density, even assuming a willing population, wouldn't support an extension of the Rockaway Pk branch to Neponsit, unless someday something like an extension of the Flatbush Av line to Neponsit ever happens, and even such extension happened, it likely wouldn't be brought over the water to the Rockaway Peninsula, I guess. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sat Nov 24 11:22:54 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Sat Nov 24 11:10:15 2007. "First, you need the cars to spare, and also, the terminal capacity. The timetables would also have to be revised, since one doesn't want to create congestion via this additional service pattern."But Rockaway service is not terribly congested inasfar as number of trains on the track is concerned (I am not talking about the number of passengers on each train). Rockaway service is half of the A service, the other half serving the three stations of the Liberty Av-Lefferts branch. So running a Rockaways train service would not be a big deal, even at rush hour. There is still plenty of track capacity; the only complication is scheduling trains through the single-track connection (trainss have to take turns using it). But PATH does that successfully at a much tighter schedule with its Hudson tubes. However, your point about rolling stock is valid. You'd need to have extra trainsets assigned to the Rockaways service. |
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Posted by FarRock on Sat Nov 24 11:34:09 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Sat Nov 24 11:10:15 2007. The service wouldn't really cause congestion and the Q22 wouldn't have to be altered in any way.If there was a connection between Flatbush and The Rockaways it would have to be elevated due to the sea level. The problem is NIMBYS would fight to keep trains from rumbling through their neighborhood. |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sat Nov 24 11:51:08 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Newkirk Plaza David on Sat Nov 24 10:57:00 2007. Sorry, David, but you're wrong.Arverne by the Sea has been in the works for quite a while. You don't put a development like that up overnight. The City council has been trying to lure developers to the Rockaways for decades and now they are succeeding. The 2003 Capital Plan was put together knowing that these developments were coming, but the trigger was not pulled on the construction until after the development began construction. The Capital Plan reflects projects the MTA Board has approved for its funding priorities, but that does not mean they all get done, or all get done on the intended schedule. Wiuthout arverne by the Sea, the Rockaways project woiuld probably have been deferred another few years. "White Plains Road and Broadway/BMT line stations led MTA/NYCT to realize that the Rockaway stations can all be done simultaneously while the funds were being allocated for this work." MTA has "realized" that since the 1960s. They just didn't have the money to do it. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sat Nov 24 18:00:06 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Fri Nov 23 21:46:49 2007. Ya, I think so. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sat Nov 24 18:00:37 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Newkirk Plaza David on Sat Nov 24 10:57:00 2007. pwn3d |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Nov 24 18:11:23 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. Last time I visited the Rockaway Beach branch, Beack 105th Street's (quite long) platforms were covered in pigeon guano. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Nov 27 21:22:05 2007, in response to Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by NEPONSIT2006 on Fri Nov 23 15:47:31 2007. the canopies on the Far Rockaway Side were already replaced. All disused stairways (no longer used and in some cases they are half gone already) will be removed.I heard that They will also rehab the viaduct steel and deck (roadbed). They will also address the line from Broad Channel.(I do not know if they will fix Broad Channel or just the right of way.) Work will start in June, 2008 on thew rock Park side first since those stations are in need of greater attention |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 21:43:57 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by FarRock on Sat Nov 24 11:34:09 2007. Plus all that would be needed it to add more Q35's. Q35's if enough buses were running can handle any such population boom. At most it would be LRT rather than a subway that runs from Flatbush to the Rockaways. |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 21:47:14 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Nov 27 21:22:05 2007. Yeah but also 105th? That's the lowest used station other than North Aqueduct. Does it need a fix up for the entire station? If for just the 4-car segment where the shuttle stops then yes, but the enitre platform... i dunno. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 27 21:49:18 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by FarRock on Sat Nov 24 10:18:44 2007. I wonder why the Rockaways only have one bus route that travels along it all the way from the Rockaway Park area to the Far Rockaway area, unless the Q22 doesn't get that much ridership or another service isn't needed. I wonder how a Beach Channel Drive bus would do out there. |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 27 22:02:43 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 27 21:49:18 2007. And by that, I mean a bus that runs all the way down Broad Channel Drive from Neponsit to Far Rockaway. |
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Posted by daDouce Man on Tue Nov 27 22:14:41 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 21:47:14 2007. The A train does stop there.5 trains in the morning and 5 in the afternoon. |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:26:10 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by daDouce Man on Tue Nov 27 22:14:41 2007. True, but it is still the lowest used station in the station. How much improvement should it get? other stations deserves to be improved over 105th. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 27 22:31:18 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:26:10 2007. It should get a full renovation. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 22:38:14 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 21:47:14 2007. Perhaps, but while they're doing the line, they might as well do the entire line as good as feasible - you never know what the future might bring, or when the next time renovation will come will be. (And as already pointed out, they get some 'Midtown Direct' trains too). |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 22:39:35 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:26:10 2007. True, but it is still the lowest used station in the station.Lowest used station in the system? Is it? (I don't know the answer). |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 27 22:43:40 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 22:39:35 2007. LINK |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 27 22:44:19 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:26:10 2007. I thought that title went to Aqueduct Racetrack? Or maybe even Van Alst. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 27 22:47:07 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 27 22:44:19 2007. Van Alst is roughly more than twice as busy. |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:49:35 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 27 22:44:19 2007. Oh right forgot the name, but that was the station i was referring to. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 22:50:04 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 27 22:47:07 2007. Talk about another station that could use a rehab too, and as well, a heavy duty deodorizing, though...... |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:54:29 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 22:38:14 2007. Well I know about that and the fact "they may as well since the other stations are getting rehabbed now" point. but still it is the lowest used station that is opened at least everyday. Resources to fix up that station would've been better used for a line that at least gets double the ridership.Otherwise they can fix up the immediate portion served by the 4-car shuttle. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 27 23:03:41 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 22:50:04 2007. Talk about it?! I visited it on Sunday!LINK |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 27 23:04:57 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:54:29 2007. I disagree. It would make no sense to leave a station to rot. Don't want to take care of it? Then close it. Want to keep it open? Make it decent, even if you do it cheaply. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 23:06:04 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:54:29 2007. True but if you go based on ridership, the Rockaway Pk Branch shouldn't be rehabbed at all, at a certain point, right? I suppose the question becomes one of where you're going to draw the line. |
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Posted by daDouce Man on Tue Nov 27 23:08:14 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 22:26:10 2007. Just enough improvement so that parts of the station doesn't crumble into Rockaway Freeway. |
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Posted by Grand concourse on Tue Nov 27 23:09:43 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by trainsarefun on Tue Nov 27 23:06:04 2007. I would say only the segments where the shuttle stops at especially for the shelters. And obviously to make sure the platforms are safe enough to walk on, but other than that pretty much not more than that till the other more patronized station stations gets rehabbed 1st.IMo Rockaway Pk Branch would've been the very last segment to be repaired unless there were severe deteriorations. |
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Posted by daDouce Man on Tue Nov 27 23:12:11 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 27 22:43:40 2007. Better link.OK it's not a link. Just cut and paste. http://www.geocities.com/gunk1931/subway/SubwayRidership.htm |
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Posted by daDouce Man on Tue Nov 27 23:14:31 2007, in response to Re: Rockaway Train Stations To Get Overhaul, posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 27 22:44:19 2007. The bottom 23 stations as of 2002.400 Bowery J M 477,528 401 Bay Pkwy F 471,204 402 Beach 67 St A 462,078 403 Central Ave M 461,611 404 Morris Park 5 444,318 405 Hewes St J M 432,706 406 *Rector St 1 9 419,547 407 Middletown Rd 6 405,189 408 Whitlock Ave 6 401,770 409 Cypress Hills J 397,475 410 **Neptune Ave F 378,933 411 Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St A S 339,050 412 Beach 90 St A S 315,225 413 Bushwick Ave-Aberdeen St L 281,850 414 E 143 St-St Mary’s St 6 278,303 415 Aqueduct-N Conduit Ave A 246,582 416 Beach 98 St A S 245,995 417 21 St G 245,212 418 Atlantic Ave L 210,637 419 Beach 36 St A 186,328 420 Beach 44 St A 116,154 421 Broad Channel A S 99,679 422 Beach 105 St A S 82,571 423 Aqueduct Racetrack A 45,832 |
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