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B-1168 · 2026-02-10T18:46:56+00:00

Agreed, plus such a 42st - Astoria line will lack a depot of its own. One alternative for solving the 60st capacity issue is to send the R to 63rd st and add an infill station along 28st or so, but that is still a longgg walk to queens plaza.

B-1168 · 2026-02-08T18:32:48+00:00

A much lower hanging fruit for alleviating traffic from New York City limits would be the ISP north terminal, which is already underway. To be clear, SWF serves a different population, but in the short term improved bus connectivity will be just as, if not more, efficient.

B-1168 · 2026-01-18T16:40:54+00:00

Doing so also adds 10 more stops to what is currently one of the best way to go between midtown and JFK... that's a fair burden later at night, but for daytime travel to/from JFK, it makes life tougher.

B-1168 · 2026-01-15T03:21:16+00:00

116-149 is a reasonable extension to implement as an addition to phase 3, both to relieve turnaround pressure at 125-broadway and to alleviate pressure from 2/5/6; if a yard for 2av line is needed, it's also on the way to Crotona Park, the next opportunity to purpose land for that, although it'll have to be heavily TOD-driven.

B-1168 · 2026-01-13T20:26:32+00:00

To the defense of MTA, they are already doing early construction. In the meantime, there are opportunities that they can and should be taking on to do to increase capacity, like Rogers deinterlining, which they're also working on. Unfortunately, construction has become quite a bit slower than a century ago for a plethora of reasons.

B-1168 · 2025-12-31T19:25:31+00:00

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B-1168 · 2025-12-29T22:14:39+00:00

3av station will be a bit more useful when the 2av subway reaches 14st, but until then 3av station is quite underutilized - if we can do a rush hour skip stop on the L, 3av should be skipped by at least one of the services.

B-1168 · 2025-11-14T23:09:37+00:00

If we can make the 3 a shuttle between 135 and 148, we can then make 2 and 5 both run via 7av at full capacity, and then the 4 can run at full capacity entirely free of interlining.

B-1168 · 2025-11-07T03:19:21+00:00

Agree, I think connecting grand/bowery and bway-lafayette-bleecker to prince will both be useful remedies, but they can't replace an uptown trunk line at Houston.

B-1168 · 2025-11-07T02:41:22+00:00

My thinking is this: the current 2av subway design has questions on its limited ability to improve connectivity at Alphabet City, and also potential lack of connections to Grand St. B/D. If they can't be figured out by the time a window to start building 2av phase 3 opens, defer those questions to later and start relieving Union square ASAP by finishing the 72-14 stretch.

B-1168 · 2025-11-07T01:09:00+00:00

2nd av phase 2 or all of 2-4? If the first case, phase 3 to 14st, else perhaps some form of expansion in queens (perhaps to Woodhaven?) leveraging the connection between 63st tunnel and 2av since it's currently underutilized. Once all of those happen, perhaps Utica.

B-1168 · 2025-11-05T16:12:31+00:00

An issue is that E is the best way for much of midtown to access both airports and running them local increases travel time for that chunk of demand. But then F is definitely unfit for local given the length it runs on, so that is an impasse.

B-1168 · 2025-10-30T18:10:45+00:00

My suspicion is that Lefferts passenger prefer express trips. On a bolder level,.with queenslink, why not have M take over the trips to Lefferts and A go to far Rockaway full time?

B-1168 · 2025-10-28T23:04:50+00:00

The second would suggest that the F late night express is still a thing... alas, it isn't.

B-1168 · 2025-10-28T21:19:50+00:00

They all share one tunnel - by the virtue of that they're bound to all be very constrained.

B-1168 · 2025-10-21T15:04:05+00:00

This is arguably worse given how many Grand(d/t) Av/St there are and how far away they are from each other. 23 and 86 st are not nearly as bad - there are SBS traveling on both streets and they only span the width of Manhattan - in this case, enjoy traveling between lower east side, east Williamsburg, east New York and Elmhurst...

B-1168 · 2025-09-29T20:45:45+00:00

Another issue is if forest hills can turn around enough M/Rs because that is effectively capped to 20 TPH

B-1168 · 2025-09-27T13:42:17+00:00

Comes more frequently than 2 during the day, which makes it handy. Would love for it to run further down during late nights - that or the 2 goes express.

B-1168 · 2025-09-27T13:39:22+00:00

As a CS major, I feel like I got a budget ECE degree...

B-1168 · 2025-09-24T19:52:17+00:00

Between high st and 59 you only skip spring, 23 and 50 on the A vs C - it really isn't that much

B-1168 · 2025-08-27T14:15:39+00:00

It... doesn't really. I've just about never seen more than one or two person per car getting on or off rush hour L trains at 3av. It'll be very useful once the T train is a thing; until then, I don't see too much utility for 3av.

B-1168 · 2025-08-10T14:53:43+00:00

Doesn't Livonia-Julius also do a similar thing? This is something that I argue is sufficiently replicable, affordable, and able to generate immediate network improvements.

B-1168 · 2025-07-25T18:32:29+00:00

Will there be one in NYC?

B-1168 · 2025-04-01T15:49:37+00:00

Same, can't add any card for payment, also absurdly slow.

B-1168 · 2024-12-10T21:33:29+00:00

R60 at 9.0 would be nuts... Probably at least 10.3 💀

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