Because I have one I just made using Google Maps (I can't photoshop). Anyway, here's the link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... =UTF8&z=10
Anyway if you want an explanation, here it is:
A: Lefferts Boulevard routing is cut because it can create headway problems under Cranberry Street. All A trains now go to Far Rockaway.
B: No changes.
C: C is extended from Euclid Avenue to the Rosedale LIRR station. Southeastern Queens lacks service, so I figured I'd just extend the C via Lefferts to Rosedale.The C uses Lefferts to access Linden.
D: I made an extension along Gun Hill Road to Co-Op City, which would otherwise not be served.
E: Extended to Belmont Park to serve Hollis and Queens Village without having to use the LIRR. Also, the E now runs local between Kew Gardens and Jamaica.
F: Runs express to its current terminus at 179th Street, then is extended to Little Neck Parkway. Also, it runs express in Brooklyn between Church Avenue and Bergen Street.
G: I keep hearing all these fights about what should go on Queens Boulevard and what not, but I try to limit the amount of services using track to 2 trains (except in the 60th Street Tunnels). So what I did was extend the G to Queens Plaza and give it a whole new routing. It would run under 31st Street (and the N and W trains) to Broadway, and then run under 21st Street to Ditmars Boulevard, and then go under the Hell Gate Bridge to end in Mott Haven in the Bronx. This also creates a Queens-Bronx connection.
J: I extended the J to serve Whitestone via Utopia Parkway
K: NEW SERVICE: To help relieve Queens Boulevard traffic, I created the K train which would run through the 14th Street tunnel and then under Metropolitan Avenue to join with the Queens Boulevard line, serving the F stations that would now be empty and end at 179th Street. I would consider running a 3-track line for peak direction expresses. I'd make this a priority.
L: The L (and the K) would be extended to 11th Avenue. The L would also be extended to Seaview Avenue in Canarsie.
M: The M would be extended using the old New York Connecting Railroad tracks to 74th Street, and then run in a new tunnel that would lead to LaGuardia Airport, which is conveniently missing. In addition the M would be rerouted where the R is today and have an extension to Staten Island, which I put in to appease some of the Streetsblog regulars (I think PATH would be better for Staten Island than the Subway, but whatever...)
N: The N now runs as a true "Sea Beach Express" in Brooklyn, using the inner tracks on the Sea Beach. In Queens, it would extend to 20th Avenue.
Q: I had the Q run up Second Avenue, then turn east at 112th Street and go under Randalls Island. It would run along Ditmars Boulevard and serve LaGuardia Airport and then run along Northern Boulevard to Little Neck Parkway.
R: The R is the new Sea Beach local to Coney Island. In addition, it would be extended from Kew Gardens to Glen Oaks in Queens via Union Turnpike.
42nd Street Shuttle: Taken out. The tracks would be used by future PATH services.
Franklin Avenue Shuttle: Extended to Bed-Sty and the G train.
T: NEW SERVICE: Second Avenue Local. The Staten Island part isn't that much of a concern, but I know how much transit advocates on Streetsblog and the Transport Politic and related websites love that tunnel that goes longways under the harbor. I'd rather see PATH via Bayonne, but I decided on this. Oh, and it would be extended across 125th Street. This wold be one of the first priorities.
U: NEW SERVICE: Second Avenue Express. It would extend into Brooklyn via a new tunnel under Schermerhorn Street that connects to where the Transit Museum is today, and then run as another Fulton Street local to supplement the headway impacted C. I'd make this a priority.
V: Extended along the R route in Queens, and along the F into Brooklyn, serving as a local. This Culver F Express project would be a priority (and would give the V a reason to exist).
W: I extended the W to Staten Island to give it some sort of meaning. Of course this would probably be the last thing I'd do if I were in charge. The line would go down Victory Boulevard to Richmond Avenue where it would connect with one of the two PATH lines that I would like to see serving SI.
X: NEW SERVICE: This would be the "outer belt" subway serving Queens and the Bronx. This would probably be not much of a priority, except for the portion between Jamaica and Flushing. This would allow easy access between eastern Queens and the Bronx that doesn't involve sitting in traffic for an hour.
Y: NEW SERVICE: The so-called "inner belt" would use the NY Connecting tracks all the way from Bay Ridge to 74th Street in Queens, where it would then go to LaGuardia. Some people have proposed something similar to this, and it would allow easy connections in Brooklyn and Queens.
Z: No more Z service. Skip-stop is annoying.
1: No changes
2: Extension in Brooklyn along Flatbush Avenue and to Rockaway park which would make it not a huge hassle to go all the way around via the Rockaway Park Shuttle
3: Extension to JFK airport via Linden and Conduit
4: No changes
5: Extension in Brooklyn to Gateway in southeast Brooklyn
6: No changes
7: If the MTA is serious about extending this, they ought to do something that's not a waste of money. This means extending it to serve Chelsea Piers and the Christopher Street PATH station. Also, note the extension to northeast Queens.
8: NEW SERVICE: I made this for two reasons. The first is because if there is gonna be a west side subway it should be consistent. Thus it would extend up 11th Avenue to meet the 1-2-3 at 72nd Street. The other is the Lower Montauk serves two commuter trains a day that could probably easily fit onto the Main Line, and in an effort to make Brooklyn and Queens more mobile, I figured this would be an easy place to have a rapid transit line, especially since it used to have a lot of stations. Rapid transit service on the Lower Montauk would be a priority. It would then go under Lefferts Boulevard.
I'm not expecting much here, but I would like some commentary on my ideas.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... =UTF8&z=10
Anyway if you want an explanation, here it is:
A: Lefferts Boulevard routing is cut because it can create headway problems under Cranberry Street. All A trains now go to Far Rockaway.
B: No changes.
C: C is extended from Euclid Avenue to the Rosedale LIRR station. Southeastern Queens lacks service, so I figured I'd just extend the C via Lefferts to Rosedale.The C uses Lefferts to access Linden.
D: I made an extension along Gun Hill Road to Co-Op City, which would otherwise not be served.
E: Extended to Belmont Park to serve Hollis and Queens Village without having to use the LIRR. Also, the E now runs local between Kew Gardens and Jamaica.
F: Runs express to its current terminus at 179th Street, then is extended to Little Neck Parkway. Also, it runs express in Brooklyn between Church Avenue and Bergen Street.
G: I keep hearing all these fights about what should go on Queens Boulevard and what not, but I try to limit the amount of services using track to 2 trains (except in the 60th Street Tunnels). So what I did was extend the G to Queens Plaza and give it a whole new routing. It would run under 31st Street (and the N and W trains) to Broadway, and then run under 21st Street to Ditmars Boulevard, and then go under the Hell Gate Bridge to end in Mott Haven in the Bronx. This also creates a Queens-Bronx connection.
J: I extended the J to serve Whitestone via Utopia Parkway
K: NEW SERVICE: To help relieve Queens Boulevard traffic, I created the K train which would run through the 14th Street tunnel and then under Metropolitan Avenue to join with the Queens Boulevard line, serving the F stations that would now be empty and end at 179th Street. I would consider running a 3-track line for peak direction expresses. I'd make this a priority.
L: The L (and the K) would be extended to 11th Avenue. The L would also be extended to Seaview Avenue in Canarsie.
M: The M would be extended using the old New York Connecting Railroad tracks to 74th Street, and then run in a new tunnel that would lead to LaGuardia Airport, which is conveniently missing. In addition the M would be rerouted where the R is today and have an extension to Staten Island, which I put in to appease some of the Streetsblog regulars (I think PATH would be better for Staten Island than the Subway, but whatever...)
N: The N now runs as a true "Sea Beach Express" in Brooklyn, using the inner tracks on the Sea Beach. In Queens, it would extend to 20th Avenue.
Q: I had the Q run up Second Avenue, then turn east at 112th Street and go under Randalls Island. It would run along Ditmars Boulevard and serve LaGuardia Airport and then run along Northern Boulevard to Little Neck Parkway.
R: The R is the new Sea Beach local to Coney Island. In addition, it would be extended from Kew Gardens to Glen Oaks in Queens via Union Turnpike.
42nd Street Shuttle: Taken out. The tracks would be used by future PATH services.
Franklin Avenue Shuttle: Extended to Bed-Sty and the G train.
T: NEW SERVICE: Second Avenue Local. The Staten Island part isn't that much of a concern, but I know how much transit advocates on Streetsblog and the Transport Politic and related websites love that tunnel that goes longways under the harbor. I'd rather see PATH via Bayonne, but I decided on this. Oh, and it would be extended across 125th Street. This wold be one of the first priorities.
U: NEW SERVICE: Second Avenue Express. It would extend into Brooklyn via a new tunnel under Schermerhorn Street that connects to where the Transit Museum is today, and then run as another Fulton Street local to supplement the headway impacted C. I'd make this a priority.
V: Extended along the R route in Queens, and along the F into Brooklyn, serving as a local. This Culver F Express project would be a priority (and would give the V a reason to exist).
W: I extended the W to Staten Island to give it some sort of meaning. Of course this would probably be the last thing I'd do if I were in charge. The line would go down Victory Boulevard to Richmond Avenue where it would connect with one of the two PATH lines that I would like to see serving SI.
X: NEW SERVICE: This would be the "outer belt" subway serving Queens and the Bronx. This would probably be not much of a priority, except for the portion between Jamaica and Flushing. This would allow easy access between eastern Queens and the Bronx that doesn't involve sitting in traffic for an hour.
Y: NEW SERVICE: The so-called "inner belt" would use the NY Connecting tracks all the way from Bay Ridge to 74th Street in Queens, where it would then go to LaGuardia. Some people have proposed something similar to this, and it would allow easy connections in Brooklyn and Queens.
Z: No more Z service. Skip-stop is annoying.
1: No changes
2: Extension in Brooklyn along Flatbush Avenue and to Rockaway park which would make it not a huge hassle to go all the way around via the Rockaway Park Shuttle
3: Extension to JFK airport via Linden and Conduit
4: No changes
5: Extension in Brooklyn to Gateway in southeast Brooklyn
6: No changes
7: If the MTA is serious about extending this, they ought to do something that's not a waste of money. This means extending it to serve Chelsea Piers and the Christopher Street PATH station. Also, note the extension to northeast Queens.
8: NEW SERVICE: I made this for two reasons. The first is because if there is gonna be a west side subway it should be consistent. Thus it would extend up 11th Avenue to meet the 1-2-3 at 72nd Street. The other is the Lower Montauk serves two commuter trains a day that could probably easily fit onto the Main Line, and in an effort to make Brooklyn and Queens more mobile, I figured this would be an easy place to have a rapid transit line, especially since it used to have a lot of stations. Rapid transit service on the Lower Montauk would be a priority. It would then go under Lefferts Boulevard.
I'm not expecting much here, but I would like some commentary on my ideas.