Should the city build a westside subway / light rail line?

[OyCrumbler]

Originally Posted by l1995

I don't see the point, 8th Ave is close enough to all streets to its West.

I do think the 10th Ave infill station for the 7 train makes sense.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by Javawood

That crosstown line should then connect to the NQ (soon NW) somewhere in Astoria, then go off to LGA, that M60 bus gets crazy.

It could go along the Grand Central Parkway in Queens. Excellent idea.

[macnyc2003]

Originally Posted by antinimby

Nywriter, the High Line is now a popular park in case you aren't aware. It will never see trains ever again.

You may be correct, but as a practical matter, the mechanism exists to return the High Line into a working railroad, if needed.

The High Line operates under a 1983 "railbanking" law and was granted a "Certificate of Interim Trail Use." That agreement is in lieu of the railroad's owner actually having to abandon the line. But as the word "interim" implies, it's technically temporary.

Here's a press release that talks about the agreement:
Friends of the High Line Press Release

I also saw a documentary about the High Line recently in which one of the two co-creators talks about the High Line becoming a railroad again. That possiblity, however remote, apparently affected some of the restoration that the Friends of the High Line did to the structure.

Here's more about railbanking:

http://www.railstotrails.org/build-t...x/railbanking/

[iammax]

Originally Posted by antinimby

I haven't been up on 125th in a number of years but don't they have bus only lanes?

The bus lanes on 125th may as well not exist. There are so many delivery trucks double parked and commuters and car drivers who simply go in whatever lane they wany that the lanes are very innefective.