Rail Transit: New routes, extensions, and creative uses
Wouldn’t it be great if…
Light Rail
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the Triboro RX ran through at the moment, how about BRT or better yet, streetcars that travel through the same route of the Triboro RX. All subway lines (except G) would be connected! [Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens]
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It would be easier to get across Brooklyn to get to JFK and southern Queens. [Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to JFK, Queens]
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there were a bus terminal where local buses could terminate, even including intercity buses, and a light rail terminal. [Downtown Brooklyn]
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A light rail line ran between Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan using one lane of Brooklyn-Battery tunnel? [Downtown Brooklyn & Manhattan]
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we had a continuous 42nd/34th Street, river-to-river light rail Midtown Loop, with an auto-free, landscaped and cafe-lined 42nd Street boulevard, linking with all north/south subways and buses? [Midtown, Manhattan]
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86th street was closed off to cars and had a light rail running across town. [Upper West & East Sides, Manhattan]
Heavy Rail
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the subway connected straight to Laguardia airport and between Astoria and Williamsburg [Brooklyn & Queens]
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an east-west train line along Kings Highway/Linden Blvd were created connecting central/southern Brooklyn neighborhoods and southern Queens? [Brooklyn & Queens]
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A summer express train, painted like a clown, ran to Coney Island Amusement Park [Coney Island, Brooklyn to Times Square, Manhattan]
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The 6 train extended south to the Fulton station. [Financial District, Manhattan]
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The MTA extended the N train across the Triboro to the 4,5,6 under 125th Street to Columbia [Harlem, Manhattan]
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there was a way to cross the city from east to west side by subway without going to 42nd street. [Upper Manhattan]
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they extended the N to LaGuardia Airport? [Astoria, Queens]
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the M were extended to LaGuardia. [Jackson Heights & Middle Village, Queens]
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you could get to St. John’s university more easily, on a train. [Jamaica Estates, Queens]
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you could take a fast, frequent express train directly from JFK to Manhattan like other major world cities have? / there were a subway tunnel across the East River allowing the E train to run to JFK and add impetus to improve the Atlantic Avenue corridor. [JFK, Queens]
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you could get to LaGuardia by subway? [LGA, Queens]
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the G Train connected with something useful in Queens, like all the trains a 1/2 mile away at Queens Plaza? Or ran up the N-W track and across the existing RR bridge to actually connect to the Bronx?! [Long Island City, Queens to the South Bronx]
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there was subway service (or more than one train) on Staten Island? [Central Staten Island]
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The MTA ran a new line from Brooklyn over the Verrazano Bridge into Staten Island? [Eastern Staten Island to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn]
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The North Shore railway was revitalized? [New Brighton & Port Richmond, Staten Island]
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I could walk down the street and board a train to the ferry or a fast-ferry. [Northern Staten Island]
Other uses for transit
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The exterior of the above ground subway stations and tracks were to be repaired and styled to make them look less industrial. [All Bronx]
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An AVAC system that sucks garbage through large underground suction tubes was installed along Second Ave while they are digging the subway. [East Side, Manhattan]
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At major subway stops, on weekends, there would be volunteers with boom boxes playing fun dance music. After people get off of the train they dance a little and laugh a lot! [Astoria, Queens & Citywide]
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NYC listened to its own ads in subways and gave free energy saving lightbulbs to every light in the city and use the energy saved to power the subways [Citywide]
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the ventilation of buildings and subways were not aimed at street level so that pedestrians would be able to breathe. [Citywide]
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50% of advertising in the public realm (including subway stations) was replaced with images from NYC-based artists? [Citywide]
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MTA’s new raised ventilation grates could incorporate a stormwater management function, to absorb and/or slow down water runoff, as well as diverting it from flowing into subway tunnels [Citywide]
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there were more subway stations as creative as 14th and 8th ave on the A/C/E line. More stations should use their space and surroundings like with the little bronze statues that roam those platforms. [Citywide]
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we could make creative use of the 8(dry day)-13(rainy day) million gallons of water that are pumped out of the NYC subway system each day! [Citywide]
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