http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/nyreg ... et.html?hp
What I love about this idea is that it is a plant can be that can be put into action immediately. Once it is successful It can be upgraded to light rail.
This type of thing has happened before in NYC. The bike lanes became doubled to be the size of a normal lane then that lane was put next to the sidewalk with parking outside which was the step that required construction rather than paint.
Once 34 street is done is 42 far behind? Once both are done then why not make the bus a loop between the two offering access to javitts and the UN? Then why not upgrade to light rail for increase speed and capacity.
Then what about 14, 23 and 57 street corridors? They suck for crosstown corridors. They suck for bus speed too.
There is the issue of accessibility of the far west and east sides (even after the extension of the q to 96 street).
This could be the beginning of a light rail system in New York that makes it possible to get across town quickly, provides decent public transit options to areas underserved such as west Chelsea, hells kitchen, murray hill the un and yorkville, and in doing so eases subway congestion that would otherwise be very expensive to solve with new lines or extended platforms.
Or it could all just be a bus lane idea that will be gotten rid of by the next mayor.
What I love about this idea is that it is a plant can be that can be put into action immediately. Once it is successful It can be upgraded to light rail.
This type of thing has happened before in NYC. The bike lanes became doubled to be the size of a normal lane then that lane was put next to the sidewalk with parking outside which was the step that required construction rather than paint.
Once 34 street is done is 42 far behind? Once both are done then why not make the bus a loop between the two offering access to javitts and the UN? Then why not upgrade to light rail for increase speed and capacity.
Then what about 14, 23 and 57 street corridors? They suck for crosstown corridors. They suck for bus speed too.
There is the issue of accessibility of the far west and east sides (even after the extension of the q to 96 street).
This could be the beginning of a light rail system in New York that makes it possible to get across town quickly, provides decent public transit options to areas underserved such as west Chelsea, hells kitchen, murray hill the un and yorkville, and in doing so eases subway congestion that would otherwise be very expensive to solve with new lines or extended platforms.
Or it could all just be a bus lane idea that will be gotten rid of by the next mayor.