MTA looks into possible new subway line to Marine Park (Utica: neighborhood, school)

[NyWriterdude]

MTA looks into possible new subway line to Marine Park | News 12 Brooklyn

So they are doing the study at least. Now let's see if they can get the federal funding to make this possible.

[Blackbeauty212]

LOL if its anything like the 3 stop SAS, we'll all be dead before they're done with the "Studying"

[That_One_Guy]

Interesting. I'm really glad the MTA is looking into new subway expansions outside of Manhattan finally too.

Reading those comments on that article, I really hope NIMBYs don't stop this from happening.

[Chava61]

Probably it won't happen any time soon (if at all).

[shooter2219]

it wont happen anytime soon.......they have to gut thoroughfares just to build the tracks. And Marine Park is still a white neighborhood.......normally areas like that oppose subway service to keep outsiders out........in 2017 they can skeptical of developers and hipsters as much as they would be suspected of blacks and latins traveling to the area....

[D. Scott]

Hope it never happens. That place is an oasis of green and peace. That park and area will get overcrowded and overrun by gaudy high rises. Its happening to Sheepshead Bay already. I say leave it alone. Call me an old schooler stuck in the past but I think it should not be.

[antinimby]

I've said this before but the damn city/state/MTA needs to expand train service in the Flushing Queens area. That is where tremendous growth is occurring the most, not these sleepy Marine Park places.

The bus stops all around downtown Flushing have lines 50+ people long, ALL THE TIME. A bus comes along, fills up with passengers and immediately there's another line forming waiting to get on the next bus. It's ridiculously underserved by mass transit.

[Above Average Bear]

Oh geez...there goes the neighborhood...

[antinimby]

If there's a place in Brooklyn that needs more train service is the Sunset Park area. Yes, the Brooklyn Chinatown. As busy as the whole area is, there is really only one subway station, the 8th Ave station on the N line.

[Gantz]

Originally Posted by antinimby

I've said this before but the damn city/state/MTA needs to expand train service in the Flushing Queens area. That is where tremendous growth is occurring the most, not these sleepy Marine Park places.

I believe that "sleepy" area has the busiest bus line in the city. Utica Ave/Flatbush Ave are no joke.

On Flatbush near Brooklyn College they even have private buses and taxis because the MTA buses cannot keep up with demand, with 3 dedicated bus stations on 1 block...