Should Mayor Connect Brooklyn to Queens With a Waterfront Streetcar Line?
A story in The New York Times suggests Mayor de Blasio can do an end run around Albany and forge a public transportation route to meet new needs with a modern streetcar line along the waterfront from Brooklyn to Queens. The line would make it easier for residents to get around Brooklyn; tie together transit…
A story in The New York Times suggests Mayor de Blasio can do an end run around Albany and forge a public transportation route to meet new needs with a modern streetcar line along the waterfront from Brooklyn to Queens. The line would make it easier for residents to get around Brooklyn; tie together transit starved areas such as Red Hook, Greenpoint and the Navy Yard; connect to ferry, bus and subway routes; and link Brooklyn to Queens.
The author estimates it would cost somewhere around $600,000,000 or so. Now that Brooklyn is less Manhattan-centric, do you think this is an idea whose time has come, or should we just improve existing bus and subway service?
Imagining a Streetcar Line Along the Brooklyn Waterfront [NY Times]
The proposed “Triboro X” line would positively impact more people and places. And since most of the right of way is already established, it would be more feasible.
I don’t know what financial shape Hudson Bergen Light Rail is in in New Jersey, but I enjoy riding it whenever I get the chance.
Bikes don’t work for a large percentage of the population that don’t feel like riding them, or are not in sufficient shape to ride them.