deskjockey

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.

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)!

http://forgotten-ny.com/2011/12/holiday-subway/16-oppy/

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...