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With the MTA so broke and without alternative sources of revenue apart from (controversial) congestion pricing, I say it would be ideal for them to just file for bankruptcy. But now this leaves me asking, why hasn't the MTA done that (yet) if it's the better way out of their eternal financial crisis? What's preventing them from resorting to bankruptcy?

And those are the areas of the Big Apple with the highest rates of car ownership. No surprise here 🙄

I suppose it has to do with budget "constraints", though I suspect there's more to why our construction costs are so damn high when subways in other cities across the world (and the US!) are able to build more stations for less money without suffering the same fate as the NYC subway. My perspective says water leakage is a consequence of the unique geography of NYC where subway lines traverse rivers and areas close to the water table...

Good, so those who are hearing impaired can understand the announcements too.

Does anyone know why Hudson Yards and the Second Avenue Subway are already suffering from water leakage? I mean, it's shocking how such new stations are now falling victim to the same fate as Archer Avenue despite being the newest ones in the system...

Yet I still don't understand how water would've leaked into those stations in the first place. Same with the Second Avenue Subway and the Hudson Yards stations. I'm guessing it has to do with the unique and vulnerable geography of NYC, given that parts of it are close to water...

Just after getting off the train at 96th Street I was shocked to see water damage on the ceilings of the station, given that it only opened two years ago. The same thing has happened at Hudson Yards on the not long ago. Is it that the state of the subway is fragile due to the city's geography, or does it have something to do with poor quality waterproofing during times of bad weather? I don't understand... This tells me that the Second Avenue Subway is just about to become another Archer Avenue Subway, where all three of the stations are literally falling apart due to water intrusion. And the stations along the 63rd Street line (especially Roosevelt Island) are just as bad...

I suspect greedy, entitled Long Island commuters play a role in deliberately wanting to keep LIRR fares within the city expensive to discourage Big Apple straphangers from riding LIRR trains beside them 🙄 Perhaps they fear NYC commuters will cause (more) overcrowding on trains and worsen delays? You bet that could be one reason why there hasn't been a LIRR station in Elmhurst since its predecessor closed in 1985...

Hence the name, "Main" Street.

And Flushing traffic is an absolute nightmare! 😫😫😫😫😫

Don't forget that Mets-Willets Point is very ill-equipped to handle what could potentially be massive crowds of commuters heading to and from the airport, especially taking into account that the is already one of the most congested subway lines in the system during rush hours. In my honest opinion, the LaGuardia Link Q70 SBS already does a good job shuttling you to and from the airport, so there's really no need to waste money on a useless, overpriced AirTrain route that will hardly save travel time. If it does materialize it will become a white elephant at best...

That's what I meant--your replacement segment.

Yes, indeed. The Q38 has such a circuitous routing that it can't be considered a reliable bus to take. So it's best if you split it back into two separate routes, with one segment being the Q75 proposed by BRE.

When I had that plan in mind, I proposed extending it south along Springfield Boulevard toward 147th Avenue before veering westward toward the Q3 route into the airport.

That reminds me, in the past I once suggested extending the Q77 to JFK Airport and a lot of members were strongly opposed to my plan.

How about a Bx50 between Fordham Plaza and Flushing via LGA?

The way those half-fare MetroCards work is to discourage unnecessary overcrowding of buses caused by students who live close to school but are too lazy to walk home.

Is one service enough for the planned Second Avenue Subway? With a proposed connection to the at 63rd Street towards Queens, it's logical that a second service supplement the . This was my most recent service proposal:

Sounds like a nice plan. Now all that's left is the willpower of the ...

The SAS could get a second line to Queens, given that current plans call for a spur to the 63rd Street line toward 21st Street - Queensbridge. From there the line can continue as an elevated structure above the LIRR between Sunnyside Yards and the Forest Hills - 71st Avenue station where it connects to the local tracks along the Queens Boulevard corridor. This new line would be a turquoise supplementing the south of 55th Street, operating local east of that station to 179th Street, operating express to 21st Street via the 61st Street - Woodside station, and then making all stops to Hanover Square after Lexington Avenue - 63rd Street station. It would operate at all times except late nights. To accommodate this new service, the would run express east of 71st Avenue at all times except late nights when it operates local in Queens. service along this segment toward 179th Street would remain unchanged. However, I also have to admit that such a plan would first require that Jamaica Yard be expanded as overcrowding has forced the storage of trains on the express tracks east of 71st Avenue during late nights and weekends.

A few times I saw artics run occasionally on the Bx28 and Bx30 routes in the middays. Why is that?

As I mentioned once before, the MTA discontinued B8 service to Canarsie Plaza in 1995 due to insufficient rider demand. Though I would keep my B66 route proposal as it is, one adjustment I would make is to terminate early morning and late evening buses at Kings Highway and Beverly Road (mimicking BrooklynBus's original B21 proposal), while daytime and early evening buses would continue toward Canarsie Plaza.

Then how come New Hyde Park Road has one (the n25)? Is it because the residents there want a bus route?

What can you say about Nassau Boulevard? Do you think it needs a bus route?

Why doesn't Nassau Boulevard have its own bus route? If that corridor were to have one, the most likely route it would follow is from the LIJ Hospital to the Rockville Centre LIRR station, running along Marcus Avenue in the north, and then continuing straight along Nassau Boulevard and Ocean Avenue to the Babylon Branch. Also, Adelphi University, which has no direct access to public transportation (other than a long walk from the LIRR at Garden City), could benefit...