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I suppose I'll post my opinion on SAS Phase II, since I haven't yet done so. Ending the line at Lexington and 125th is a huge mistake. One reason why the second phase is going to cost so much is the sharp curve at 125th and the property acquisition required. Not tunneling into the Bronx will kneecap the line's usefulness. I doubt many people will transfer from the 4,5, and 6 (even fewer from Metro North because afaik it will not be a free transfer) unless they work on the Upper East Side. But midtown (and to a much lesser extent) downtown are where the bulk of jobs are, not the UES. Even if bell mouths were included for a possible future extension to the Bronx (which was already nixed years ago) the station at 125th and Lexington combined with the two track nature of the SAS, will limit the number of trains that would be able to go to the Bronx if a future extension was built. The Harlem River is very shallow, digging a trench and sinking a pre-fabricated tunnel into place has been done many times in the past in wider and deeper bodies of water. In fact, that's the exact method the IRT used when building the Lexington Ave. Harlem River tunnels in 1913-4! https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Construction_of_the_Harlem_River_Tubes_(1915) Local New Yorkers will know better than I, but a transfer from the Pelham Line to SAS at 3rd Avenue 138th Street would seem to be more useful than the planned one. At 125th Street, Pelham Line riders can use the existing cross platform to transfer onto Lexington Ave. express trains. That is already more convenient than the planned transfer, which will be located below the existing Lex. 125th Street station. Why go down a level instead of taking the familiar easy cross platform transfer? If a transfer is located in in the Bronx, before train riders have the opportunity to transfer onto Lexington Avenue express trains, it seems fairly easy to assume more Pelham riders will use SAS than under the current proposal. Similar logic applies to a 3rd Avenue 149th Street SAS transfer for White Plains Road and train riders who under the current plan, will either not be able to transfer onto SAS or would be inclined to not transfer once in Manhattan since they are already on an express train , unless their destination is east of 3rd Avenue. I realize if the SAS went to the Bronx following 3rd Avenue, instead of ending at Lex. and 125th Street, Woodlawn Line riders would not be able to transfer to SAS. New Yorkers please correct me if I'm wrong, but the White Plains Road and Pelham Lines are the lines in the Bronx which most need help to reduce overcrowding and meet demand. is already paralleled by the IND Grand Concourse Line, anyway.

Here's a couple of articles about it. This is so sad. What's infuriating is that not one of the stories I found mentioned the obvious solution to prevent such incidents (and suicides) in the future: platform edge doors. Only "increased police presence" and vague references to helping the homeless community (the suspect was homeless) were mentioned as responses to this murder. But police can't be on every platform at all times and not all 12-9s involve the homeless. The MTA will never install platform edge doors unless there's significant public pressure for them because of the MTA's legendary resistance to change and the ever present "it's too expensive" excuse. Local media should at least mention platform doors as a possible solution when reporting about 12-9s, not just ask random riders "if they feel safe" after such incidents in order to get a quick soundbite. https://abc7ny.com/woman-killed-subway-push-times-square-man-arrested/11471944/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp33VvYKd0k Irrelevant but this quote is definitely.... something: ""People jump when they try to finish their life themselves, it's okay, but to do it this way, it's crazy," subway rider Julia Avramenko said."

The main issue I have with the MTA's tweet is that guy is clearly not on the tracks.