R68OnBroadway

Agreed. The IRT should have done the same with Columbus Circle back in the 50s.

52nd Street on the 7 is one.

The , and terminate at 42nd then.

A shuttle signed as runs between 116th and Far Rockaway. service operates between Howard Beach/Lefferts and 207th Street. Trains run local in Brooklyn, and also run via Rutgers/6th Av. Some peak trains run express in Brooklyn. trains run between 168th and WTC. trains operate as normal. service slightly reduced. trains terminate at Bay Pkwy. trains run to Flatbush Av via Eastern Pkwy Exp. trains run as normal. trains run as normal. trains run between Woodlawn and Brooklyn Bridge, running local south of Grand Central. trains run between Grand Central and Dyre Av. operates as normal. late-night service rerouted over Manhattan Bridge. Trains run via the to CI, with some terminating at Ocean Pkwy due to capacity issues. operates as normal. service via Bridge at all times. is suspended. Cranes are used to get cars to the Rockaways. CI yard is already evacuated and only cars awaiting scrapping remain.

Cranberry is at capacity, so I would just extend the and send the to CI via West End or Sea Beach. Besides that, it works fine.

You can't run 8-car F trains as you should have to go take some from ENY, which would take an hour if they were sitting there. You would also be deceasing capacity, and you could just transfer to the at Broadway-Laffayette and take it to Canal or Brooklyn Bridge for the / if you needed to get to Queens and Brooklyn. trains are suspended. trains rerouted via the to 9th Av, via 4th Avenue Lcl. service is rerouted to Chambers Street or Broad Street. operates as normal. trains are rerouted over the Manhattan Bridge to Dekalb, where they resume normal service. IRT Brooklyn lines provide alternate service. trains to Bay Pkwy are suspended.

You might be able to use modified subway cars (ex. SIR R44s) that are compliant with FRA standards, but the only chance we have of something like that happening soon is with the R211 contract, or with whatever contract replaces the 62/62As.

The is also rather long, so that is another reason why it wouldn't work.

SAS shuttles wouldn't work as the body could be in the 63rd street tunnel, so power on that track would be shut down, while the IND side would remain open.

mainly uses Concourse, and the / have Jamaica. terminates at Bay Pkwy. terminates at Kings Highway. / terminates at Brighton. service terminates at Bay Pkwy. Use diesel equipment to get cars out of CI.

What else am I going to do? Send the to the Bronx?

service operates in two sections: Between 207th and 59th (local) and between 14th Street and Far Rockaway (local). Service to Lefferts becomes a shuttle, and RPK service is suspended. service is suspended. service operates between Jamaica Center and 21st Street-Queensbridge. service is suspended. trains are split up. The southern part is rerouted up Broadway to 96th Street. service is suspended. The northern runs from Norwood to 59th as CPW local. trains run via the to Bergen, then resume their normal route. service is rerouted to Chambers Street. trains operate between 137th Street and 242nd Street. trains operate via the in Manhattan. service operates between 148th Street and 96th Street.

service is rerouted up 6th Av via 53rd street to Jamaica, running express. Trains in Astoria become shuttles. service is truncated to Times Square, and runs local in Manhattan. service is terminates at Whitehall (late-night service pattern). service operates as a shuttle between Times Square and Whitehall Street. Other routes affected by this change: service is rerouted to Chambers to permit the to run to Queens. trains now run local in Queens so the can run express. This helps take some pressure off the as two express lines now run via 53rd.

If you want fast service from the Rockaways, you need to build a new line via South Brooklyn. The RBB would only serve as a shuttle unless a bypass was built that connected to the 63rd street tunnel.

While I agree with the plan, the rest really won't work because of these reasons: 1. QBL is at capacity. 2. 75-footers cannot go on Myrtle. This would require sending all of the 68s from the B to the N/Q/W for 160s. This would create longer dwell times along the line because 75-footers have increased capacity with the same amount of doors. 3. Most people won't take the M because it runs as a QBL local. If people really wanted a good connection from the Rockaways to Midtown and lower Manhattan, I would send a line from 96th street down to Prospect Av, running express on Broadway. After Prospect, it would run express to Church and then run down a new line under Flatbush Avenue to Rockaway Beach Blvd, where then it will run over that to 119th street. From there it will curve to Beach 116th St station. This however, would require relocating buildings and rebuilding the entrance/exit of Beach 116th St station. As for the Flatbush section, the line would be 3 tracks with a peak direction express service. Express stops would be located at Nostrand (transfer to the 2 and 5), Kings Highway, , and Utica Avenue. Local stops would be included at Clarendon Rd, Avenue J, and Avenue N. After passing Avenue V, the line would emerge and run alongside Flatbush Av, as well as merge into two tracks. A summer-only stop might be added at Floyd Bennet Field. From there, the line would travel on a new bridge to Jacob Riis Park, where another stop would be located. After that, the line would run along Rockaway Beach Blvd to 116th with stops at 142nd, 133rd, and 124th.

Don't they have power gaps on the line there which is why they can't use a 4 car R32 for the RPK ?

My plan for the would not involve it heading into Manhattan at all. Instead, it would just run to Forest Hills with track connections to QBL and Jamaica Yard.

Connecting it to QBL is not a good choice. The R is already long enough, and the M starts in southern Queens. I think it would be easier to connect to the LIRR mainline. The LIRR could run trains from NYP and Atlantic to JFK. They would reactivate the RBB, and use the express tracks at Aqueduct Racetrack and Aqueduct-North Conduit. One track can be built over at JFK to have a platform for the terminus, and a concourse can extended above the platform for ticket machines. If they don't want this, they could extend the RPK shuttle up to Forest Hills and have it connect to QBL there. They would also rename it to "H". A connection would also be made 104th St on the J. Knowing how people are though, they will build the Queensway because they "don't have enough parks" or "my privacy is going to be invaded by passengers looking out the window of a train going past at 40 mph".

Bowery?

R12: Probably because it usually only runs with the old SMEEs R15: same as said above R33WF: Well, they just restored 9307 so they might want to let it run for now to test it.