kingal11234

Why is there no bus between lower Manhattan and Red Hook Brooklyn via the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel?

I don't understand why there would not be a demand for this. It would give Red Hook residents a one seat ride to Lower Manhattan. There riders could travel to lower Manhattan in 15 minutes or less Plus you could have a bus traveling from Park Slope to South Ferry that would run down 9th street to City Hall via the Brooklyn Battery tunnel. The service could begin at Prospect Park West, travel from 9th st to Hamilton Avenue and there the bus would travel under the BBT and terminate at City Hall. Currently Red Hook has to rely on the very slow B57 and B61 buses to travel to downtown Brooklyn before they cant transfer to a train.

Why is there no bus between lower Manhattan and Red Hook Brooklyn via the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel?

The B82 should be left alone except an extension to Gateway Center Mall. The B14 should be combined with the old B71 route until it gets to court st/smith st from there it should go to lorraine st and end at Ikea. The Q35 route needs to be left alone.

can anyone tell me why T trains wont be running to South Ferry. Is it because of budget issues or environmental issues?

I mentioned SI because the Lex Ave line got to the South Ferry, the second ave line as planned, does not. Think about it the Lexington Ave line is overcrowded even with 3 fast trains serving it. What makes you think that one T rain is going to really make much of the difference? If it was just served by the 6 than I would understand terminating the T at125th St but you are not going to significantly reduce crowding in the most congested line in the U.S by building a shuttle from Lower East Side to Harlem.

I mentioned SI because the Lex Ave line got to the South Ferry, the second ave line as planned, does not. Think about it the Lexington Ave line is overcrowded even with 3 fast trains serving it. What makes you think that one T rain is going to really make much of the difference? If it was just served by the 6 than I would understand terminating the T at125th St but you are not going to significantly reduce crowding in the most congested line in the U.S by building a shuttle from Lower East Side to Harlem.

I totally agree with you.The T train running to Dyre Ave is the best option for me. The only thing that I concerned about is how they would build it since the dummies at the MTA cut a connection to the Dyre Avenue Line in the 70"s That may be true but that is only a small portion of people. Basing a line on only 4 blocks(north-South) crossing about 136(East-West) blocks isn't the greatest idea. And anyways Third ave is only block from either line, so why would they go on the Second avenue one? Plus you would have to assume that all riders who live on the blocks are trying to get between Hanover Square and 125th St. What if a rider wanted to get to Brooklyn,or the Bronx? This line would not be of much use to them. Suppose I needed to get to Staten Island. The Second Avenue Subway has no links to the Ferry so a rider would have make two transfers just to do this. Rather than doing all that most riders probably would rather just walk 4 blocks to the Lex Avenue line.

No the T as planned is not a G train. The G train goes between 2 boroughs(Brooklyn,Queens). The T only goes to one Manhattan. The G train does not replicate any other line. The T runs parallel to the 4,5,6 lines. The G trains serve areas with no subway alternative, the T does not. Why would a rider wait 5-6 minutes rush hour or 10-12 minutes off peak when they can just wait for the 4,5,6 trains which either one will make it up to 125th St. The Second Ave Subway llne will fail unless it is extended itself to the Bx. However I do not support a link up with the Grand Concourse Line. That would just be redundant. It should just jo up 3rd ave or swing towards Throggs Neck or Classon's point. Or better yet rebuild a connection to the Dyre Ave Line

Well first of all, the B4 should be returned to full time service. Second the B 74 would go up stilwell ave from Coney island turn on neptune ave, proceed down neptune/emmons ave to nostrand ave, turn on nostrand ave and end at ave H. That route is not impossible and would help ease overcrowding on the B44. I mean just think about the B 74 is a Bus route frome Sea gate to Coney Island a route that one can walk to. The B74 is useless and should be extended

It would not hinder service on the B36 if the following options were proposed: 1.Extend the B74 to Ave h as well 2. Reroute the B44 to sheepshead bay train station via Voohies ave.

How about running the B74 pass the Coney Island to Sheephead Bay along Neptune/Emmons ave to Knapps st. That would actually make the bus a useful bus service.

Why would you cut the B82 it serves just fine. I mean its not the fastest service but it rarely overcrowded. In fact I think they should have more B82 not less

The T train should not run in Brooklyn it should just be a local between the BK and BX just like the 1 train. There should be a express train that would go from the SAS to Brooklyn terminating at Kings Plaza. The ''H'' as iI shall call it would start a Kings Plaza head on down Uticca ave to Second ave in manhattan and up second ave into the the bronx.

So I guess we will never see a Utica ave subway line?