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For that to happen, you'll need to pass through the Harlem-148th Street station and demolish the existing station entrance. As a matter of fact, you can't extend anywhere past that station anyway beacuse the tracks are located at-grade.

This line has few stops, so should I give it an designation like all shuttle services?

And the will already have an SBS counterpart, the M15.

I changed my mind: runs to Brooklyn only on weekdays in this plan.

Here's my other service plan if the SAS is ever extended into Brooklyn: and run express in Brooklyn; replaces to/from Lefferts Boulevard at all times except late nights. runs local between 125th Street and Euclid Avenue at all times; late night service is extended to/from Lefferts Boulevard to replace the . runs between Jamaica-179th Street and Euclid Avenue at all times except late nights when it terminates at Hanover Square; trains run local to Forest Hills-71st Avenue, then express via the Queens Boulevard Bypass, and then local in Manhattan and Brooklyn via 63rd Street. In Queens, and trains run express after Forest Hills-71st Avenue; trains will run local along this segment late nights only.

I propose a new subway line instead of an or extension. I'd name it the (X) and it'll run between 207th Street and Co-op City via Fordham Road and Pelham Parkway via the yard approaches to the 207th Street Yard. After passing the yard into Manhattan, a new lower level will be created at 207th Street for these trains and this level will be built as an infill station along the yard approaches. Manhattan: Inwood-207th Street Bronx: University Avenue Valentine Avenue Fordham Plaza (Metro-North) Southern Boulevard Pelham Parkway Williamsbridge Road Eastchester Road Pelham Bay Park Co-op City-Earhart Lane

Absolutely

The connections are at 149th Street, not 138th Street. Even if it used those connections, it'll still have to stop at the lower level, then merge with the Jerome Avenue Line to 138th Street, and then go back up to 149th Street on the upper level.

A few years after Sandy, another hurricane storms NYC, this time being Category 3. The Stillwell Avenue and nearby stations suffered extensive damage from the storm. The entire Sea Beach Line is flooded all the way to the top. Now what?

Extending the into the Bronx is out of the question. Why not just create a new subway service of its own?

Why don't you want to refer to those fantasy maps?

Nobody wants a f***ing el outside their windows, and that's why many els in the past were destroyed...

Why hasn't the Franklin Shuttle been connected to the line?

I was assuming you already knew that I was proposing a new SAS service into Queens IN ADDITION to the Queens Boulevard bypass. Here's a map of my proposed route, but let's keep in mind this is only a rough draft: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zh758mgJc1tw.kAhITSskdJzI&cid=mp&cv=P5MqXS5JDyA.en.

There's already a provision for an SAS connection to the 63rd St line, something I took advantage of for a revived between Hanover Square and 179th Street via a Queens Boulevard super-express bypass along the LIRR ROW. Therefore there's no need for a new tunnel.

Suppose the is extended to Brooklyn via Fulton Local. If a Queens service via SAS is also planned, should that route also extend to Brooklyn?

In the last sentence of my proposal, I meant to say the will no longer stop at 75th Avenue and Briarwood-Van Wyck Boulevard evenings and weekends. Hence, trains run express between Jamaica-179th Street and 21st Street-Queensbridge at all times, and late night service will remain as is. trains replace the as the local east of Forest Hills-71st Avenue at all times.

If the bypass is built, then the best option is to route it under the LIRR ROW all the way to Forest Hills-71st Avenue. I propose a new SAS service between Hanover Square and Jamaica-179th Street via 63rd Street, running express in Queens between 21st Street-Queensbridge and Forest Hills-71st Avenue and then local to Jamaica. trains will now run express east of Forest Hills, stopping only at Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike, Parsons Boulevard, and Jamaica-179th Street; trains will no longer stop at those stations evenings and weekends. Queens: Jamaica-179th Street 169th Street Parsons Boulevard Sutphin Boulevard Briarwood-Van Wyck Boulevard Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike 75th Avenue Forest Hills-71st Avenue 61st Street-Woodside 21st Street-Queensbridge Manhattan: Roosevelt Island 55th Street 42nd Street 34th Street 23rd Street 14th Street Houston Street Grand Street Chatham Square Seaport Hanover Square This proposed service will be use the designation and will operate at all times. However, it will be colored teal instead of orange, since it will use the SAS.

I'm technically against building a bypass along the LIRR ROW because that'll mean passing through people's backyards and demolishing some buildings, so once again, I'd go for a new SAS line to Western Queens via 63rd Street and Steinway Street to relieve overcrowding on the and trains in Astoria. Or...is it possible to construct the bypass under the LIRR ROW instead of over it or beside it?

There could be a Queens service going along the SAS to Brooklyn via the Montague Street Tunnel, but because the Queens Boulevard Line is already at capacity, I'd go back to my old proposal for a new line along Steinway Street that would service an SAS route between western Queens and Brooklyn via the tunnel running local along Fourth Avenue and either the West End or Sea Beach Lines.

Should the SAS be routed into Brooklyn via Nassau, then the platforms at Chambers, Fulton, and Broad would have to be lengthened.

That's not a good plan because it would mean running shorter trains, since the Nassau Street Line has shorter platforms.

For SAS to have a service to Queens, I'd suggest cutting back the to 57th Street/Seventh Avenue to make way for it. In this proposal, a new train will operate between Hanover Square and Forest Hills at all times except late nights, making all stops in Queens and Manhattan. Also, trains will run to Forest Hills at all times except late nights when it operates as a shuttle between Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle Avenue/Broadway and trains will run local in Queens during late nights to replace the . North of 57th Street/Seventh Avenue, two layup tracks will be built beide each existing track for terminating trains.

Sounds like the Transit Museum may need to be relocated in that case.

I'd go for this proposal: Add express tracks to the entire SAS line and have a second SAS service run between Manhattanville and Lefferts Boulevard via 125th Street, Second Avenue, and Fulton Street. The new service would be designated as the (X), running local along 125th Street and Fulton Street and express along the entire route. The stops are as follows: Manhattan: Manhattanville-12th Avenue Saint Nicholas Avenue Lenox Avenue 125th Street 72nd Street 55th Street 42nd Street 14th Street Houston Street Grand Street Hanover Square Whitehall Street-South Ferry Brooklyn: Court Street Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets Lafayette Avenue Clinton-Washington Avenues Franklin Avenue Nostrand Avenue Kingston-Throop Avenues Utica Avenue Ralph Avenue Rockaway Avenue Broadway Junction Liberty Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Shepherd Avenue Euclid Avenue Grant Avenue* Queens: 80th Street* 88th Street* Rockaway Boulevard* 104th Street* 111th Street* Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard* *Late nights only In this plan, the is extended to Lefferts Boulevard and runs express in Brooklyn at all times except late nights when the (X) replaces it in Brooklyn and Queens. All other times, (X) trains terminate at Euclid Avenue. Also, the will not run late nights; the (X) makes all stops during those times. Lastly, trains will no longer serve Lefferts Boulevard, since the and (X) will serve it during the day and late at night, respectively.