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Does anyone have any info about the M9s? All I can find is from last year. When are they coming in? Will they get rid of the gross yellow front on LIRR trains?

But seriously you MNR guys are lucky with your blue and red trains.

Second Avenue is planned to have storage tracks from 21 to 9 Sts. With just slightly more foresight (allowing the 14 St station box to be bilevel, with the lower level initially closed), you could feasibly turn east, connecting the Lower East Side and Williamsburg. From there if you decide to extend further the only logical direction is towards Utica and heading south.

 

How would it change from IRT 4 service to IND V service inexpensively? Wouldn't it make more sense to start it as a rerouting of the E over Rutgers to Fulton and then down Utica? Once the new tunnels/line north of Fulton St were built, the E's terminus could be restored and the new V service sent down Utica.

Streetcars are out the question, leave those SBS routes alone...

Wouldn't they be faster though? If done the French style running on medians, they would be out of traffic.

EDIT: Traffic in NYC is terrible, a streetcar could bypass traffic for a fraction of the cost of a subway.

Not sure if this fits here, but with all the hoopla about the BQX streetcar, it got me thinking that there should be an LRT or streetcar style feeder system in NY running alongside/replacing some bus routes or running alongside freight/commuter rail.

The Bx.12+ could be a streetcar running from Inwood-207 Street, omitting the section to Bay Plaza along the NE Thruway which could be made a shuttle

The portion of the Q.44+ from College Point to Jamaica could be made into a streetcar, which would make outer borough travel easier. 

A LRT or streetcar along (not on the tracks of) the Lower Montauk or Bay Ridge Lines of the LIRR would also be cool.

Might be improbable, don't know a lot about LRT/streetcars.

So if I understand what you're proposing correctly, something like this?

 

Just wondering, why Great Neck?

I think they should honestly revive the   as the Broadway AND Flushing Express. This will help tell the difference between   local and   express trains (Because people are too stupid to read the signs), give people who live in Bronx a fast travel to eastern Queens quicker, and helps with traffic. Plus, there should be a skip from Dyckman St to 242 St- Van Cortlandt Park because   train exclusive stops aren't really good for people who live in Bronx and are going to   line-exclusive stops. They could just build a tunnel from Times Square onwards, connecting in with the the    at 5th Ave. This also benefits the    line in case an incident happens between Manhattan and the Corona Yard.   trains could just operate from Bronx to Manhattan as an alternative to   service. And, if case of there being a problem at the Hudson Yards station, they can just reroute some    trains via the Broadway local.

I don't think that's feasible. There's a LOT of tunneling under TS already and you can already transfer to the 7 at 42 Street. Also, there is only a third track on the Flushing Line, so full-time express service on the Flushing Line would be impossible without a complete rebuilding of the el structure

What does the M mean on R188?

It means a R142 converted into an R188.

If Phase 4 becomes complete in our lifetime, I hope that the Grand Street station gets rebuilt into a 4 track station with 2 island platforms and not be built a bi-level station.

They were planning on that, but changed it as building phase 4 as cut-and-cover would necessitate tearing up Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Chinatown..

Thanks. New to this site, it's great.

Can I please get: 

R160:

MARINE PARK-KINGS PLAZA

SECOND AVENUE LOCAL
NASSAU ST LOCAL

CROSS-BKLYN LOCAL

and R143

72 ST-BWAY

TENTH AVENUE LOCAL

14 STREET LOCAL

CANARSIE LOCAL