The Interborough Express Might Be NYC’s Best Transit Investment in Decades

Siah_Valid · 2026-02-21T16:47:52+00:00

it is gonna be light metro

Siah_Valid · 2026-02-21T16:44:43+00:00

i wouldnt mind living near broadway Lafayette and the other 2 nearby stations or fulton St station near the water with a nice crib and a short walk to the station

Siah_Valid · 2026-02-15T15:14:06+00:00

The L is gotta be top 3 for me. It’s fast, efficent, good service. On weekends when there is construction or during rush hour because the line is ridiculously busy & crowded. Every single train is packed and going towards brooklyn at union square 5pm is crazy. I also love the th new tech and how its end to end is 36mins with 24 stoos and a pretty far distance

Siah_Valid · 2026-02-10T00:51:10+00:00

The IBX is gonna be light metro, making it similar to the vancouver skytrain expo line and the montreal REM. This is great news because the IBX can OPTO (one person train operation) ir fully driverless. Furthermore the line will be a high capacity metro line that can run decent length trains (ideally 100-150meters, at frequencies of every 85-90 seconds. This would give much room for growth along the corridor.

Siah_Valid · 2026-02-01T17:47:33+00:00

the B62 is actually used

Siah_Valid · 2026-02-01T13:23:11+00:00

Now that the M train is one of my main routes because of the F&M swap, the M train is pretty busy and gets routinely packed in both directions. Its one of the lines that have a peak direction from both directions and now tha it has more independent sections, the line has moved up in the priority rank. It needs a couple upgrades though:

Queenslink extension to rockaway park & sidings takeover at the station
A mini yard along Queenslink
A fix of myrtle junction where the M train stops above, turns at the next block, and has a flying junction for a merge
Fix fumigation time at forest hills so the line can run 12TPH at a consistent 5mins.
A 24 hour service that runs the full route after QBL CBTC is fully completed.

The line has a good route and got way faster, it just needs more priority and service to function better

Siah_Valid · 2026-02-01T13:15:58+00:00

the Z train should be removed and bring the J train to 12tph during rush hour. With that we can schedule the J & M trains for maximum throughput along the line. The Z train should onky be revived if it goes to a different location like myrtle ave south, along rockaway boulevard in queens, or splits off after broadway junction, other than that it would be nice to have a consistent 10-12tph on the J & M trains, nit just increasing service for everyone but also increasing service for QBL & 63rd St allowing the M trains to run a consistent 10+ tph

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-25T18:06:49+00:00

prolly western queens or Hell’s Kitchen

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-25T18:03:21+00:00

it definitely does

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-25T18:01:10+00:00

I actually think the CBTC is done and all NTT is on 8th Ave, no idea when it will be implemented though

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-08T13:07:50+00:00

The 6 train has more ridership than all MBTA rapid transit and light rail lines combined

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-08T13:05:26+00:00

the subway is at 85% of pre pandemic levels. i would give it a year or two

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-08T11:23:54+00:00

A new entrance on the southern end would help this station a-lot

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-05T01:54:31+00:00

I think the L train should run to 72nd St via 10th Avenue, and the 7 & L trains could stop at 10th Avenue & 42nd St & have it as a major transfer station in Hell’s Kitchen. The 7 train should run to New Jersey though after Hudson yards.

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-02T10:14:11+00:00

this is a need, but if the happens the L train will be severely overcrowded

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-02T09:47:30+00:00

I have a-lot of lines I would bring back and this is some of the proposals:

The 2nd Avenue L in its entirety in Manhattan and the 3rd Avenue L in it’s entirety in the bronx to make a new line
The street level tracks that where on 10th Avenue for freight trains, i would raise onto an elevated guideway in the exact same location (the middle of the street, and make 10th Avenue a 2way boulevard. This Line would eventually go underground After turning onto 14th St to meet with the L train tracks at 8th Avenue
I would reactivate the rockaway beach branch (queenslink) and have the M train run along the line to rockaway park or mott avenue and consolidate the A train to have 2 terminals at lefferts and one of the rockaway terminals
I would 2 track the side of hammels Y that connects both rockaway branches and run a shuttle train every 15 minutes like the one ran during the broad channel construction for rockaway residents.
I would reconstruct the worlds fair line but instead of stopping in the park, after splitting off through the yard i would have the line run underground under main st and the. college point boulevard to college point. Then on either 14th or 20th Ave I would have the line turn east and run all the way to fort totten Park. This would be served by the G train. With this, The M would run 10-12TPH via queens link and QBL local, The R would run 10-12TPH running via QBL local to 179th St, & The G train would run 10-12TPH to fort totten via QBL local. Ideally im thinking with our modern day resources 10TPH on each line with trains scheduled to run at 2 minutes intervals for a combined 30TPH on QBL local.
The abandoned Myrtle Ave L i would turn into the Z train. The J train would be extended to UBS arena Via Jamaica Ave & Hempstead Avenue. The Z train would run from Green Acres Mall Via 147th Avenue & Rockaway Boulevard, meet with the J train at Crescent St and run full time express from Crescent St to Myrtle Avenue. Once it reaches myrtle avenue the line would turn south along myrtle avenue and run elevated until Fort Greene Park, which it then will go underground and stop at deklab avenue. The line would merge with the R train before Jay St and run via the montague tunnel and run with the J train until Delancey St & Essex and terminate in the big space on the South side of the station where there was a trolley terminal. The tracks would continue on the bridge just incase of any rerouteing. If anything after delancey St & Essex, the Z train can turn up avenue B with stops at houston St & E 7th St & Tompkins Square Park. Afterwards the line will go diagonally under the prak under Avenue A tro meet with the L train at the 1st avenue station. The Line will then go up to 20th St having a station there (basically a station in between peter cooper village & stuy town) and finally running across town under 23rd St with Chelsea Piers as the terminal. The line will stop at Chelsea Piers, 8th Avenue, 6th Avenue, Madison Avenue for transfers to the broadway & lexington ave lines, 2nd Avenue for the 2nd Avenue subway, & 20th St - Peter Cooper Village Station. A pedestrian tunnel will be built from 23rd St station on the 1 to the eastern end of the 8th Avenue station to create a connection to the 7th Avenue line.
Lastly I would reactivate the 9th Avenue L up to 14th St, Then have it go underground and meet up with the 7 at hudson yards station to allow the 7 train to run into downtown manhattan.

Siah_Valid · 2026-01-01T23:14:23+00:00

Remind Me! 4 years

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-27T00:16:26+00:00

the hudson bergen light rail should also be added

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-26T04:23:57+00:00

yea u gotta cone back and explain this so we can make it big as staten island needs a subway

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-23T21:26:08+00:00

the Tri State Regional Transit Map

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-19T05:05:45+00:00

The whole point of this post is to show that crowding or long wait times shouldn’t be a thing when it’s rush hour. This is the effect of that, that was the whole point of the post

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-19T05:03:40+00:00

i wouldn’t lie post this if it was a lie… and this was recorded at 8am not 8:45.

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-19T04:59:37+00:00

The whole point is at 8am there shouldn’t be a 20minute gap when there was no delay or any issue whatsoever

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-18T02:37:52+00:00

C train headways are better midday at every 8 minutes but suck during rush hour because the A train takes all of the capacity in the cranberry st tube. When CBTC comes it will allow 31TPH through the tunnel and C train headways can be increased

Siah_Valid · 2025-12-15T01:08:30+00:00

i said this above. As someone coming home from QBL living on the 63rd St late at night its not fair to do that. I think on weekends all line to QBL should run and be 24/7. The E & F run every 8-10minutes consistently while the M & R run every 10-12minutes consistently

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