What nyc subway line do you wish existed

As suggested by max, fantasy transit that would make your life easier.

I vote for the reinstatement of the myrtle avenue 'L' all the way to manhattan bridge and over.

The one that combines the F and G lines (that we occasionally get on track-repair weekends).

WHY YOU HAET LONDON NOW YOU MOVING TO PITTSBURG AND ALL?!?!?

obv the oft promised once aborted 2nd ave line is the holy grail

i cant really complain tho as i live w/in four blocks of more subways than is possible anywhere else in the entire retardo city

haha wiki describes the 2nd ave subway as "A dream for more than three quarters of a century"

like i said on the other thread i wd love a new bk subway that goes greenpoint ave > graham ave > myrtle ave > utica a/c > utica 3/4

u wouldnt have to dig any new entrances, just connect those 5 stations

i guess there could stand to be a stop btw myrtle & utica and another btw the two utica ave stops

who do i talk to about getting this doen

The 2nd Ave train would also be the Holy Savior of the 4/5/6 because right now it's practically un-usable for crowding and quality of life issues. I despise the rush-hour 4/5.

city transit building on boerum place. please bring one billion dollars in cash. thanks.
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start digging!

an uptown/downtown 6 station at broadway lafayette would do nicely...

o man i read this article a few years ago abt this awesome company that had this product they were proposing for new york that was this really light weight elevated track w/individual cars that could fit like 6 people in them - u get in tell the car where you want to go and it takes you right there - anywhere in the entire system! no different lines! no transferring! no bullshit!

That would never work.

its a beautiful dream

we are still allowed to dream arent we

Park Slope to Greenpoint, perhaps continuing on to Long Island City or Astoria. It would put an end to the dreaded $20 intra-Brooklyn cab ride.

In other words, the combination of F & G like Dr. Morbius says, but with fewer stops preferably.

UWS-UES-Astoria-LaGuardia-Woodside-Greenpoint-Park Slope
(replace the M60?)

this is a good one^

Combo of the F & the G would be great but there are way too many stops on the G.

Has anyone been following "Bus Rapid Transit" - subway style bus (pay before boarding) with a dedicated, physically divided lane.

Anything to LaGuardia would be a good thing and a proper Rail connection the JFK/Newark would also be a godsend.

BRT is OK, we have it in a few cities here and LA has it but it is a poor poor poor substitute for trams or trains.

I'm not super fussed about a number of inter-Brooklyn routes because the buses work just as well. Like the B48 between Lefferts Gardens and Wburg/Gpoint that hits Crown Heights and Pros Heights and Clinton Hill and etc along the way. There still doesn't seem to be any route between Park Slope and Greenpoint, tho, unless you can get to the B61.

I'm kind of into the rapid-style bus thing where you buy your tix while you wait and board immediately through all doors. City has to wait like another 2 years to get more articulated buses, though, I thought.

I still ride the NYU buses when I want to go to the hospitals from the village

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bendy-bus is the preferred nomenclature

bus is great during the day but i need something that comes more frequently than once an hour at night

Picky picky

mostly my dream subway line is for nights and wknds, during the day i dont really have a problem walking to south wburg from bed stuy but im not sure i want to make a 1.5-mile hike drunk at 2am

buses are great when you want to get to your destination at a slow jog accompanied by people w/horrible infectious diseases

Have you considered DUIs on bikes?

I'm one of the people with horrible infectious diseases so I don't give a shit. And I take the subway, too.

i totally boycott the bus completely

2nd Ave seems too close the 4/5/6, I want an Avenue B line

yeah it s/b 1st avenue at the most, not 2nd ave

Alphabet City is totally unserved by public trans but I think that's all that's saving it right now. It's nice over there in the teens. Nice and QUIET.

I bet if Bloomberg serves 8 terms we will get all dese

a subway line running the entire length of Broadway in Manhattan. or maybe a #1/F train hybrid, like a UWS/Village/LES/Brooklyn connection.

Screw Blomberg

laurel, that's kind of a really jacked up thing to say. "let's continue underserving an entire community because it keeps the bars nicer"???

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totally agree that it could jog east a little at 14th street

tho 2nd ave is the perfect place for it n of there

gabbneb otm. the west side to east side buses are fine, but a train would be >>>>. and a train to laguardia, for sure. still don't understand how this city managed to exclude its airports from its rail transit system. (i'm going to have my first experience with the jfk air train later this month, but even that is hardly an efficient and convenient solution.)

yah fuk a $5 slow ass airtrain srsly

Actually if there was a train to Alpha City I'd go there a lot more, you know how I feel about walking. But I bike over there once in a while in the early morning to see lol Engerlish soccer and it's so nice and quiet and domestic, a little rough still y'know but like people LIVE there. Considering the EV and LES are now full of irredeemable, unrepentant douche bags, I fear for Aves B & C.

B is already overrun, really.

RIP music box

http://www.moonbattery.com/michael-bloomberg.jpg

Typical Blomberg: build a brand new subway line in the heart of Manhattan, while service to the outerboroughs gets cut or eliminated all together. Fuck that dude.

You do realize that this line has been planned since Bloomberg was in short pants, right?

RIP music box

― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Monday, October 6, 2008 12:03 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

aw i used to go there all the time back in the day

"musical box" tho

Castup, there's a difference between "plan already existed" and "deciding now to throw billions of dollars on a new subway in the heart of already-overserviced Manhattan when the outerboroughs are experiencing an overwhelming flood of transplants and immigrants."

But the subway line itself isn't that big of an issue, it's just illustrative of his his overall attitude and posture. He makes it looks like he cares, but the weight of his efforts are only in line of his own personal interests and the interests of his "type". Bloomberg's ambitious new plan for his third term: privatizing Central Park. $30 admission to the Great Lawn.

(and "type" does not mean Jewish, I mean rich Manhattanintes ... who happen to also be overwhelmingly Jewish)

Has anyone been following "Bus Rapid Transit" - subway style bus (pay before boarding) with a dedicated, physically divided lane.

Cleveland is doing this right now to connect downtown to the Cleveland Clinic and the Museum district/Case Western. It's not yet, but should be completed shortly.

http://euclidtransit.org/home.asp

"Bus Rapid Transit" is as sure a sign as credit default swaps of the decline of the american empire

B is already overrun, really.

totally true

"a subway line running the entire length of Broadway in Manhattan"

^

why are you guys all so anxious for another fare hike?

There's going to be another fair hike anyway, like it or not, thanks to transit funding being controlled by some shit from Rochester.

"a subway line running the entire length of Broadway in Manhattan"

it's called the 1/9 above 42nd St and the N/R below

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try again

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one that goes to san francisco

haha, i was gonna say the same

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^^ my proposed line--ideally would be that color and maybe called X as in maX

max, take the train to our baseball playoff FAP! imagine the laffs.

when/where

hey herers those individual subway cars i was talking abt - podcars!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/ithaca-aims-to-be-america_n_134352.html

More reliable and navigable north and southbound trains in Brooklyn, pleez!

The one that combines the F and G lines (that we occasionally get on track-repair weekends).

Been wishing for this for 6 years :(

YES. i haven't read whole thread but if there was a way to get from williamsburg to flatbush in one train that would be awesome. the box can suck it.

i would also like a train that will diagonally take me to the uws.

that YES was an xpost to pillbox

if you ever see the Z train pulling into station, hop on it--it'll take you to heaven .

It was the schlep from Greenpoint to Park Slope that always got me down (usually ended up taking a way-too-expensive cab ride). I've been out of the city for about 1.5 years (moving back soon), but last I knew, around spring of 2007, the powers that be were supposed to supe up the G and add stops in PS. Did this end up happening?

They were -supposed- to temporarily hook the G up to the F line, but with the whole economic crap going on they've basically said "dream on".

g to f didn't work from greenpoint?

i find it much more difficult to get form wburg/gpoint to say, prosepct heights or midwood.

those who live in the slope get what they deserve

xpost to tehresa: If I recall correctly, the expedience of transport b/w gpoing/PS depended largely on the day and time. Granted, I was usually trying to get back home in the middle of the night from my friend's bar or a show at the Southpaw. After 8 or 9, its no secret that the G just fucking sucks (or used to, at least).

also: I'm not proposing they fuck with C. Park at all, but if the city could provide a slick teleportation device to relocate between the UE the UW sides without having to switch 3 times in midtown, I would be much behooved thank you.

Overall, I can't really complain about the public transport in NYC, b/c it mostly fucking rules.

Not that you want to hear this, T, but the hands-down BEST way between Pros Hgts and points north is the B48 bus. I've been planning my social schedule around the bus times for years.

The only drawback is that the last bus of the night makes the Lorimer/Metropolitan stop slightly before 4am, so you can't technically close the bar. Bike takes care of that most of the year, though.

if the city could provide a slick teleportation device to relocate between the UE the UW sides without having to switch 3 times in midtown, I would be much behooved thank you.

there are buses, you know

i find it much more difficult to get form wburg/gpoint to say, prosepct heights

Two trains too many?