by Roadgeek Adam
I've noticed this with the Second Avenue Subway and the West Side Line thought for Metro-North. Is it just me or is 116th Street and 125th Street becoming overly large in the northern Manhattan transportation base?
116th Street:
116-Columbia on the 1
116-Morningside on the B & C
116-Lenox on the 2 & 3
116-Spanish Harlem on the 4, 6 & <6>
Now to possibly add 116-Second Avenue for the Q & T. It seems more to me that having 5 stations within a short stretch is pushing it. (Yes 116 Columbia and 116 Morningside are rather far apart due to the park, but it seems ridiculous that on the East side we will have 4 stations in such a short distance of each other. Next, outside of 125th, why is 116th Street given such priority? It's not as wide as the rest, as a bonus, outside of Columbia, there's not much interesting stuff on 116th. Are we trying to turn it into a long-wind transportation hub or something to the sorts?
As for 125th Street:
125-Harlem on the 1
125-St.Nick on the A,B, C and D trains.
125-Lenox on the 2 & 3
125-Lexington on the 4, 5, 6 & <6>
The 125th Street-Harlem Metro-North station
And to bonus, the 125th Street station proposed for the WSL and the underground of the 125-Lexington for the Second Avenue Subway. Are we turning 116th and 125th into too large of streets. Yes 125th is this important street and all, but the 1811 plan did give other streets significance. Why not a 181st Street Metro-North station or 175th like the A gets for the bus terminal? I guess what I'm saying in a nutshell is "Does the MTA focus too much on certain area and needs to spread out its focus?"
116th Street:
116-Columbia on the 1
116-Morningside on the B & C
116-Lenox on the 2 & 3
116-Spanish Harlem on the 4, 6 & <6>
Now to possibly add 116-Second Avenue for the Q & T. It seems more to me that having 5 stations within a short stretch is pushing it. (Yes 116 Columbia and 116 Morningside are rather far apart due to the park, but it seems ridiculous that on the East side we will have 4 stations in such a short distance of each other. Next, outside of 125th, why is 116th Street given such priority? It's not as wide as the rest, as a bonus, outside of Columbia, there's not much interesting stuff on 116th. Are we trying to turn it into a long-wind transportation hub or something to the sorts?
As for 125th Street:
125-Harlem on the 1
125-St.Nick on the A,B, C and D trains.
125-Lenox on the 2 & 3
125-Lexington on the 4, 5, 6 & <6>
The 125th Street-Harlem Metro-North station
And to bonus, the 125th Street station proposed for the WSL and the underground of the 125-Lexington for the Second Avenue Subway. Are we turning 116th and 125th into too large of streets. Yes 125th is this important street and all, but the 1811 plan did give other streets significance. Why not a 181st Street Metro-North station or 175th like the A gets for the bus terminal? I guess what I'm saying in a nutshell is "Does the MTA focus too much on certain area and needs to spread out its focus?"
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