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There was? Do you have a picture?
F***.
I didn't take one, but Forgotten NY did in 2011 (so did not expect to find it out there anywhere)!
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I've just thought of a way to control crowds on the subway. Promotion posters. People choose over ? Well, can give you a relaxing ride and goes to places that the can't go, and you can easily get a seat. People choose over ? Even though the is express, the is actually faster, running on a shorter route. People choose over ? You can easily get a seat on the , and gives you a nice, relaxing ride.
Another way, the is more crowded than the ? Schedule to run the before the . more crowded than the ? Schedule to run the before the .
You get the picture.
On the most recent nostalgia train there was a vintage poster in one of the R1-9s advertising this exact thing. Good ideas never die, they just fade away...
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Department of Subways - Proposals/Ideas
in New York City Subway
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I'm batting around a plan, without an eye to cost, for using bits of commuter rail to run new 2nd Av services:
(As I am graphically challenged, forgive the amateur hour visual accompaniment)
: Coney Island to Wakefield (or Mt Vernon) via the Metro-North Harlem Line
: Kings Plaza to 125th & Broadway (or just Park) via Utica Ave & the LIRR Atlantic Branch
New, blue, : Valley Stream to Bayside (or wherever) via Northern Blvd & the LIRR Port Washington Branch
I see a number of issues with this like getting from Hanover Sq to Atlantic Terminal (I'd like to send the T & V through the Montague Tunnel but there'd be a whole mess of capacity constraints to that) & that these are pretty long routes (which could be mitigated by keeping Nostrand Ave as the only intermediate stop between Atlantic-Barclays & East New York) but it'd be adding service to some of the densest areas not served by the subway as well as new trains to far eastern Queens.