50% Less G Service Coming Our Way
During the Thursday meeting, The MTA is expected to: completely do away with the “W” line, which runs from Queens to Manhattan, and the “Z” line, which runs through Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Also on the chopping block: service will be cut in half on the “G” line, which runs from Queens to Brooklyn; and…
Sam, take a deep breath, it makes sticking your head in the sand palatable for longer times.
What utter rubbish…it’s the auto life style that’s unsustainable. If you have any financial analytic acumen at all, consider all the “subsidies” given to the entire auto transportation system, include the “externalities” (side effect costs), add in the anguish caused by deaths (50000+/yr) and you might see that mass transit is so much superior to the single auto paradigm that the latter will eventually become the dinosaur, though not in our lifetimes maybe.
That is not cool. I used to live in Clinton Hill and I could get to the upper east side (third and 53) in about 20 minutes on a good day and always get a seat. I always felt like I was in on some kind of secret. ; )
The problem seems to be that mass transit in America is just financially unsustainable. Ours is a nation that has been based, since the 1920’s, on the ideal that everyone would own their own means of transportation, ie: a car. New York City, having been largely built and planned prior to 1920, is the last holdout of the Victorian notion of trolleys and horsecars and trains bringing people back and forth short distances. This ideal, though historic, and romantic, is unsustainable unless the fares go up to three or four dollars a ride, and that is just for now. In ten years what will it cost to ride the subway? %50? It is a depressing scenario. The MTA is a dinosaur. It is destined for extinction. And when the meteor lands and the trains die, we are all going to have to figure out something else. Maybe the old tunels could be used for parking.
mcfly, it’s one hell of a ride.
gwb – I agree, also any tax increases Obama has in mind for the $250K plus set would most wisely be spent on infrastructure and transit.
I will do everything I can to see that cuts and reductions to the G train does not happen. This train is vital to all of us along its path. I have an idea-get some of that $700B and put it to transit and not to corporate bonuses.
AGHH! that’s horrible news about the G – it’s not like there are other trains serving these areas. i hope that’s true that it’s not less frequent g service. if that were the case, i’d probably give up on it. recently, i’ve waited 10 to 15 mins during the day, if that jumped to 20 to 30, it wouldn’t be worth it.
The W line is a waste. I’m glad they are doing away with it.
I hate that it kicks out all the Brooklynties at Whitehall Street.
Yes this doesn’t seem to actually affect Brooklyn riders. It just makes permanent the existing service cuts that made Court Sq. the last stop for at least the last few years.