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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Resurrecting this bitch to try my hand at transportation engineering

Holla.

I read that the MTA is thinking about doing away with G train service in Queens, which don't bother me none, since, you know, Queens. HOWEVER, in the same article I read that they don't really know what the hell they're doing with the G, and might instead extend it to Church Ave. Here's a map for those of y'all who aren't up on your Brooklyn subway ish.

The G train goes all the way to Church Ave. anyway, since they turn the trains around there or something, so they're toying with the idea of letting them pick up people on the way. I'd be down with that, for sure (Church Ave. is my F train stop, should have mentioned earlier), since it means I could get to Williamsburg without going through Manhattan or changing trains, and half the people I care about in the world are all moving to Williamsburg. But, I think we can do one better than that:

Why not just extend the G all the way to Coney Island and make the F express in Brooklyn? They share a track from Smith/9th to Carroll St, and there's an express track at least to Church Ave. because sometimes the F runs express from Jay St. Maybe they'd need to lay down more track, but whatever, worth it. That would drastically shorten the trip from anywhere in western Brooklyn to Manhattan, and would allow uninterrupted service to Williamsburg, finally uniting the borough via subway, since who wants to deal with the B61 anyway? It's the best plan ever, and if anyone from the MTA happens to read this and wants to pay me for the right to use it, email's on the sidebar.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Jimmy said...

I'm all for busses, and the even the G train (probably because I don't have to take it to get home), but yeah FUCK the B61.

3:18 PM  

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