Armandito

What's another advantage of having the route along Tenth Avenue instead of Eleventh Avenue? Note that the drawback here is that there won't be a transfer to the in Manhattan anymore.

Why not just run a diamond along the same route to Hudson Yards?

UPDATE: Three more stops have been added and some existing ones have been relocated and/or renamed. Would it be ideal to add in express service this time, or would it be fine as an all-local route?

I'd leave 62 St there and add stops at 74 St and 102 St to serve the Q47 and Q23 routes, respectively. The reason I want to keep 62 St is so the could have an easy transfer to the proposed Triboro RX line nearby, if it ever comes to life.

What street could be an ideal location for an additional stop?

My plan calls for a three-track configuration between Broadway and Bell Boulevard with an underground layup yard east of the latter station. I don't have plans for an express service but these would be provisional express stops: Bell Boulevard, Main-Union Streets, Junction Boulevard, and 54th Street-Broadway. There would also be a maintenance facility built at the site of the College Point Corporate Park, which would serve as the main yard for H trains.

Your stops along Northern Boulevard are too many and too closely spaced together. Even if the IND were to have already built a Northern Boulevard subway to Bayside, the stops would be more widely spaced out, therefore mirroring today's trend of faster local-only service as opposed to adding in an express alongside it. My H train proposal does just that, and this service is its own route that doesn't interline with any other existing services: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1xxOviuFLs1P8LiFK-DurKk2yPp54nKbV&ll=40.76102947828557%2C-73.82188059522302&z=14

I tend to determine which stops become expresses based on potential ridership as opposed to distance. Kinda like how the determines LTD and SBS stops along busy bus routes.

If you take a look at my train map (https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1xxOviuFLs1P8LiFK-DurKk2yPp54nKbV&ll=40.755252902715426%2C-73.886925&z=10), the line would extend as a fully local service from Bell Boulevard to the Hudson Yards station, with the latter end terminating at a lower level platform below the existing one. Though I do have a third track included in my plan (between the Broadway intersection and 164th Street next to the LIRR Broadway station), I haven't considered introducing express service as the stations along the are more widely spaced than those on the . On the other hand, the following stations would be provisional express stops: 54 St-Broadway, Junction Blvd, Main-Union Sts, 164 St, 192 St, and Bell Blvd. The rest of the stations along the route would be all-train stops.

Then it would've been "logical" for the IND to build a Northern Boulevard subway parallel to the if their primary goal was to push the IRT and BMT out of business. After all, no other subway line serves Queens north of the Queens Boulevard Line except the to Astoria and the to Flushing.

It's too late to extend the past Main Street; the stubs that would've been used for such an extension are now blocked by a new entrance that got built when the station was renovated in the mid-1990s. Gotta admit that it would've been much, much better if a Northern Boulevard subway was included in the blueprints for the original IND subway of the 1930s. Feels puzzling that a Concourse Line parallel to the on Jerome was included but not an adjacent line to the , especially taking into account that some parts of the original IND are overbuilt.

Thoughts?

I plan to build the tracks at the same level as the express tracks along Northern Boulevard between 36th Street and Broadway; I'll post track maps soon.

Thoughts? https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1xxOviuFLs1P8LiFK-DurKk2yPp54nKbV&ll=40.75917812494056%2C-73.9353563574515&z=13

After noticing a lot of support for a Northern Boulevard/50th Street subway, these are the stations I plan to include for the route: Queens: Bayside-Bell Blvd* (LIRR at Bayside) Auburndale-192 St* (LIRR at Auburndale) Murray Hill-162 St (LIRR at Broadway) 154 St 147 St Main-Union Sts Mets-Willets Point (at Seaver Way between 126th and 127th Streets) 108 St Junction Blvd 83 St 73 St 54 St-Broadway 43 St 36 St Queens Plaza (lower level) Court Sq-23 St (at 45th Avenue and 23rd Street) Manhattan: Lexington Av-50 St 6 Av-Rockefeller Center ( via transfer passageway to Seventh Avenue) 8 Av 42 St-11 Av 34 St-Hudson Yards (lower level) *Stations with an asterisk not finalized in my proposal yet (Route and track maps will come later)

I would have the line under 21st Street go above the tunnel and relocate the current station to the other side of the corridor. One reason why I'm not so cool on an extension to LGA is because there was immense community opposition against this proposal when the first envisioned it in 1999. When it comes to building a new el in any neighborhood these days, it's guaranteed to get struck down by NIMBYs, believe it or not.

Included in my LaGuardia subway proposal is a connection to the 63rd Street Line for a potential SAS service to Manhattan and possibly Brooklyn (via Fulton Street Local). Note that this would require relocating the Queensbridge station to the other side of 21st Street:

This is how I made the track map for the Franklin connection:

Note that the at Whitehall only uses one track, and that train already operates at approximately every 10-12 minutes on weekdays.

But it does connect to various subway lines serving Manhattan: at Astoria Blvd at 40 Av at Court Sq-44 Dr at Metropolitan Av (I haven't included transfer points further south because they're too far) LIRR customers can use the Q70 bus at Woodside to get to the airport.

Eliminated the Brighton extension of the X train. Better? https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=13I9vecZGJDpc7SIpyjtbMZdPGwJW3OaY&ll=40.717339572080135%2C-73.91711000000002&z=12 Approximate fleet size: 13 trains (same as ) Planned frequencies in minutes: AM rush: 10 Middays: 10 PM rush: 10 Evenings: 10-12 Weekends: 10-12 Late nights: 20

If Rikers does close, it's very likely the PANYNJ will buy the island from the city to expand LaGuardia Airport.

Definitely not a good idea to build a station on Rikers Island. That's a jail complex and the DOC is very touchy about outsiders traveling there. Security is tight and a subway station there would surely be opposed by the department, given its propensity to worsen already dangerous conditions at the facilities.

It was me who posted a Northern Boulevard crosstown route under the designation via Google Maps last month, but deleted it afterwards. While I do agree that this corridor is great for a new subway line to alleviate pressure on the , 50th Street doesn't sit well with me because of the corridor's status as a mostly local-only street, a drawback which could inconvenience some riders transferring to north-south services in Manhattan. Rockefeller Center on Sixth Avenue is pretty much the only express station serving 50th Street.