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A Detailed Track Map of the NYC Subway System...
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L Train's 5-Weekend Shutdown Begins Next Week
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Would it be too much to ask for some text giving your opinion of the video?
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Harlem Torn About Expanding Bus-Only Lanes on 125th Street
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World Trade Center Hub https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8797/...d08ec6f9_b.jpg Lower Manhattan Rising - Hub & 30 Park Place by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7722/...7e9e3df9_b.jpg 237 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8702/...970c63cf_b.jpg Lower Manhattan Rising - 3 World Trade Center , Hub & 30 Park Place by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr Newark Penn Station https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7645/...54d034fd_b.jpg PATH Train at Newark Penn Station by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7659/...f7a28b63_b.jpg PATH Train at Newark Penn Station by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr Up to the Outbound Level / Track H https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7631/...2667401b_b.jpg Up to Track H at Newark Penn Station by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7645/...b86841d6_b.jpg Newark Penn Station by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr |
Newer Subway announcements to reduce dwell times at stations...I think they sound horrible...
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no surprize outer borough ridership growing faster than manhattan. marcy 23.8% = wow and yikes!
http://www.amny.com/transit/mta-ride...tan-1.10306080 |
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per the nytimes -- mayor deblasio wants a new utica avenue subway line:
Mayor de Blasio Revives Plan for a Utica Avenue Subway Line The Utica Avenue subway station in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to examine bringing No. 3 and 4 train service through East Flatbush. ROBERT STOLARIK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS APRIL 22, 2015 Among the far-reaching ambitions of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s OneNYC plan, one proposal stood out in the transportation world on Wednesday: the study of a new subway line along Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. The concept is hardly new; it has been debated for at least a century, with no discernible results. A 1910 article in The New York Times, under the headline “Transit Outlook Bright in Brooklyn,” said “a strong movement” was afoot to construct it. Another effort was made in 1928. More recently, an attempt in the 1970s failed after a City Council member from Brooklyn complained that the area did not have a large enough population to support the line. |
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PDF on the Utica Expansion, the economy, other transit projects, and tons of other material: http://www.nyc.gov/html/onenyc/downl...ons/OneNYC.pdf
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NYC doesn't have enough money to build what it already has going, let alone to start a new line. Given the current difficulties with transportation projects in NYC this is a pipe dream.
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If the city and state really want to build the full Utica Ave. subway line, it can happen, quite easily. But there has to be the will. The money is not the issue, at all, it's the commitment. And MTA's current funding difficulties have absolutely nothing to do with expansion plans. They're two separate pots of money. The Second Avenue subway and various projects have zero to do with MTA funding gaps. The Utica Ave. line has been discussed for nearly a century. It would generate huge ridership and would completely transform transit in Brooklyn. I really, really hope this happens. |
For someone with limited knowledge of deep Brooklyn, what is the advantage of Utica over another corridor like Kingshighway, or an extension of the 2 and 5 trains down Flatbush to the edge of Marine Park?
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I was wondering about Kings Highway myself, as it seems like it would be less disruptive and possibly cheaper to go under Kings Highway, since construction could proceed without blocking local access.
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As for the absurd costs of the 2nd Avenue Subway which if completed in the next 100 years, it should cost $17 billion.
That $17 billion includes 2 tunnel boring machines, labor, real estate, and the actual digging. They are spread out into intervals and thus will likely be complete by a conservative estimate around the year 2060. So either in 45 years the 2nd Ave Subway is competed or it's off the drawing boards. I have a simpler solution that costs $16 billion MAX, and should be complete in 3 years, NO MORE than 5 years tops. Buy 70 tunnel boring machines (35 for each tunnel), and they sum up to a price of 3 billion dollars alone. Then build the actual stations which when combining the cost of construction for all 16 stations from 125th Street to South Ferry, equates to 6 billion dollars. Next the cost of the actual tunneling from station to station, which is the heart and soul of any subway project, would cost 7 billion dollars for the 8 mile journey. But there are 70 tunnel boring machines, employ less people, and work 24 hours a day, and this thing should be done in 3-4 years. You could even call it the longest non stop sustained dig in American history. My plan includes labor, real estate, and the actual digging, but there is only one difference: 68 extra tunnel boring machines, and it comes $1 billion under the cost that the MTA has down, and it comes 43 years ahead of schedule. What's happening in NYC is beyond sickening, where we can't even complete a subway tunnel. I have given them a plan. They have the money. CONSTRUCT. Instead they spend more money to outfit the stations, which wastes money, and station art, and unionized labor does not help matters, and then they work some days, and stall on others, and then the RICH neighbors always complain, and then the bureaucrats are slow and incompetent. Then we include NYC and current infrastructure, and etc. etc. etc. Don't we wish it was that simple. But the only way to get a 2nd Ave Subway done in our lifetimes is a long sustained dig with more TBMs and did I mention NON STOP. Only way. |
If they built the Burj Dubai the way they are building the 2nd Ave Subway, that skyscraper would only be half way up as we speak. They only ways they were able to get the Burj up are as follows.
1) Non stop, non stop, non stop, 24/7 365 day construction. They did not stop until it was completed 2) Workers rights are few and far between, they got poor indebted workers from mostly India and Pakistan and exploited them. 3) Infrastructure: desert 4) Money, money, money, money, MONEY.. UAE is rolling in oil money America has money, and can have non stop day and night construction. America can also work around the existing infrastructure AND employ non unionized laborers. Lastly America can fine people who complain, especially if those peoples' real estate values go up via a 2nd Ave Subway. America taught the world how to build and now America (the teacher) is being laughed at by the world (the students) inhabitants in China, India, Russia, Mexico, and the Middle East (UAE). In the end I'm not blaming America, I actually feel sorry for the USA. I just wish we could complete the 2nd Ave Subway in 3-6 years in its entirety, and IT IS possible as I stated above. |
NYC Transit during a 24 hour interval
NYC transit only ranks number 9. I would love to see an interactive map of Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Moscow, and Tokyo. |
Also here is a fun game you guys can start on the next page.
Name points on every NYC subway line where they should construct a new stop I'll start the game off. 1st Avenue and 42nd Street. Call it United Nations - 42nd Street. Service is available to the 7 and (hopefully) T trains. Your turn. |
Central Park West and West 104th Street.
Call it Central Park West - 104th Street. Service is available to the A, B, C, 2, and 3 trains. |
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nypost take on the mayors plan to expand the subway:
Begging on the subway Shhh, hear that? It’s a tin cup rattling in City Hall as the de Blasio crowd tries to fund its transit wish list by begging. First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris said the city’s push to extend the subway deeper into Brooklyn and add other new transit features depends on billions more from Washington. “The first element is to lock down its federal funding support,” Shorris told reporters after a speech at the Regional Plan Association. Only then, he said, would City Hall “work with state and local resources,” according to Capital New York. File this one under fat chance. For one thing, the MTA’s massive capital plan already faces a $15 billion hole. Where’s that money coming from? For another, the GOP Congress won’t open the spigot for a Democratic Socialist mayor whose coffers are overflowing with tax receipts. The state, too, had a multibillion-dollar surplus that it’s spending elsewhere, so why should national taxpayers fund what New Yorkers won’t? The approach explains the skeptical reaction to de Blasio’s massive sustainability plan, which he calls OneNYC. Pie-in-the-sky would be more honest. |
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Call it Crossroads of the World, and it would be located at West 53rd Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue. I would make a transfer stop for the N, Q, and R trains on 7th Avenue, a transfer stop for the 1, 2, and 3 trains on Broadway, and lastly I would connect these two stops to the 7th Avenue B, D, and E train stations. Again it's called Crossroads of the World service is available to the 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, B, D, and E trains. |
Another stop I would create is Manhattan Bridge service is available to the Q and (hopefully) T trains.
Located on Canal Street at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge |
Another major station I would create is Astor Place. Service would be available to the 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, and (hopefully) T trains.
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On the back of the news that 7 train extension opening is delayed yet again, I have a serious problem with the MTA discussing any new capital projects, and giving them anymore money. Between the 7 Train, SAS, and ESA, those are what, $7BB over budget so far? And at the least two of them should have been done already going off of original construction timelines.
I have no problem with congestion pricing to give the MTA/City/State more money to execute projects like Utica Ave, but over the past decade the MTA has shown a complete and utter inability to deliver anything even remotely on time or on budget. And that doesn't even begin to cover the issue that subway construction in NYC is 3X-4X more costly per kilometer than cities like London, Paris, Berlin, etc. Transportation needs more money for sure, but with the Federal Gov't completely and utterly broken, priority #1 should be maximizing every dollar that current agencies receive. Fundamentally, giving an agency, who's three current capital projects are north of $6B over budget so far, more money is a joke. |
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The wild transit fantasies of Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo
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And yeah I read that article in the post, have any politicians jumped on that yet? Can't recall seeing anything. But yeah, there needs to be serious overhauls in cost controls. I know nothing about the construction industry, but wouldn't it be relatively easy to hire like Ernst & Young to audit that sorta stuff? |
vis the nypost:
Metro-North had highest ridership ever in 2014 By Rebecca HarshbargerApril 27, 2015 | 12:16pm Metro-North ridership in 2014 was at an all-time high, officials said Monday. More than 84.6 million people rode the railroad in 2014, up from 83.3 million in 2013. Ridership climbed almost 7 percent west of the Hudson, particularly on the Pascack Valley line. Much of the growth happened outside of rush hour and on trips that did not begin or end in Manhattan. There are more Bronx residents commuting to Westchester, as well as a larger number of Westchester residents working in Greenwich and Stamford. “In another era, young people would buy a car with their first paycheck,” MTA boss Thomas Prendergast said in a statement. “More of them are buying train passes and MetroCards.” Metro-North credited a strong local economy and the addition of more than 250 trains in 2013 and 2014 for setting the record. The LIRR also saw a 3 percent boost in ridership to 85.6 million riders a year. It is the third-highest year in LIRR ridership history. The MTA attributed the increase to the popularity of Barclays Center next to the Atlantic Avenue Terminal, as well to new trains it added in 2014 on the West Hempstead and Babylon branches. |
New Photos of the Second Avenue Subway Show Progress – and a Twist on the MTA’s Typeface
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I would take it message cautiously. Expected to open often doesn't correspond to an accurate timetable if their record is to be used as a standard.
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I believe that they didn't open 86th St station? When they will open for business? They have to be done. ASAP.
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Applicant plans for the Avenue R Home Expansion:
1) http://www.nyc.gov/html/bkncb15/down...enue_R._P1.pdf 2) http://www.nyc.gov/html/bkncb15/down...enue_R._P2.pdf |
No surprise here... :yuck:
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Good read on the Utica Ave extension talks. With East Midtown rezoning right around the corner, the focus needs to be on the SAS being completed between 125th and 42nd St. |
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Of all the NYC subway stations I've used, I don't remember a single one (or a single PATH station for that matter) having escalators going up from the platform level. A few had escalators going from the mezzanine to street level, but from the platform to the mezzanine it was just stairs, and occasionally an elevator. |
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