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Showing posts with label lirr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lirr. Show all posts
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Did the Atlantic Ticket accomplish anything?

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In June the Long Island Railroad instituted an "Atlantic Ticket" for people traveling on weekdays between southeast Queens and st...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

The Montauk Branch should go to Queens Plaza

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I was pleased to see that Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley has come out in favor of restoring passenger service on the west end of the Long ...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Decking the Sunnyside Yards: the history of a fantasy

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Becoming the Yards: 1643: Burger Jorrisen receives the first patent for farmland near the swamps surrounding the Dutch Kills. 1861: The Lo...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Light rail in New York City?

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Last week I talked about the practical differences between light rail, streetcars, subways and commuter rail. We have light rail right acr...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Getting into Manhattan

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I've got a whole bunch of ideas for subway and bus expansions in the boroughs, commuter rail and bus expansions in the suburbs, and even...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The expense of East Side Access

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The news is that the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project, initially forecast to cost $4.3 billion and be completed in 2009 is no...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Off-peak service frequencies on the Long Island Rail Road

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I made this map of off-peak service frequencies on the Long Island Rail Road . Click through to see it full size.
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Monday, September 2, 2013

Take the Chinatown Van to the U.S. Open

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There were some chuckles on my Twitter feed over the Times article about U.S. Open champion tennis players getting stuck in traffic as the...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

In 2013, subways raise property values

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Suppose that you live in a detached single-family home a block from the old Brooklyn Manor train station in Woodhaven. Your neighbors are s...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Guest Post: How sending the R train to Howard Beach can help the G go to Forest Hills

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By Capt. Subway The controversy over what to do with the 3.5-mile long abandoned northern section of the defunct LIRR Rockaway Line betwee...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Real Rockaway train service

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As I've written before , the Rockaway Peninsula is one of the least sustainable places in the New York area. This sand bar might be oka...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

This is a G train to Brooklyn Army Terminal...

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Last month, Manhattan Borough President and mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer revived hopes for what he called "the X line," also kn...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Jamaica Cutover: What if?

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That's right, folks, it's time for another installment of What If? , where we look at some boneheaded move and ask, "What if th...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Black swans over Long Island

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Last week Planet Money had a great "Deep Read" with economist Nassim Taleb. Taleb's major point is that when you're vuln...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

A simple solution to the commuter parking crunch

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Today, Ben at Second Avenue Sagas linked to a Wall Street Journal article about the MTA's plans to raise parking fees at its commuter ...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

"Atlantic Yards" project will shrink the yards themselves

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Since we're on the subject of central rail terminals and track capacity... Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project was supposed to ben...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Of Rats and Gods

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This is the second of a planned series of posts about New York's Penn Station; the previous one gave some background about the original...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

The #7 Train: Read the fine print

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I took the #7 train yesterday. After reading the MTA brochure, I thought all the disruptions were going to be east of 61st Street; the lin...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

The #7 Train: Almost There

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I was all ready to do a " what if ?" post on the MTA's plans to mitigate the #7 train construction . But they did a lot of th...
Monday, December 10, 2007

New York's Waterloo Station?

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One of the most infamous moments in modernism was the demolition of Penn Station in New York, and almost as bad, the construction of Madiso...