The Future is Green

THE OBSERVER

Bumping this forum up in preparation for future posts by FDW. Anybody like to share their ideas about upgrading transportation in cities? I think New York's Subways need to be extended and expanded (In addition to completing the Second Avenue Line and Number 7 West Side). Perhaps a future extension of the No. 7 to New Jersey? A subway line along 125th Street in Harlem? Adding lines to underserved areas? More extensions of existing lines? Restoring abandoned services? And what about developing a tram network in Brooklyn, or on 42nd Street and 34th Street? The mind boggles.

Perhaps this website shows a good example of what New York's Subway will look like in the years to come, or what it can look like now ITTL: http://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/futurenycsubway/
 
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FDW

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THE OBSERVER said:
Bumping this forum up in preparation for future posts by FDW. Anybody like to share their ideas about upgrading transportation in cities? I think New York's Subways need to be extended and expanded (In addition to completing the Second Avenue Line and Number 7 West Side). Perhaps a future extension of the No. 7 to New Jersey? A subway line along 125th Street in Harlem? Adding lines to underserved areas? More extensions of existing lines? Restoring abandoned services? And what about developing a tram network in Brooklyn, or on 42nd Street and 34th Street? The mind boggles.

Perhaps this website shows a good example of what New York's Subway will look like in the years to come, or what it can look like now ITTL: http://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/futurenycsubway/
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New York's Subway doesn't need to be expanded as much as one might think. There are several obvious extensions (Among the most obvious being the Triborough Line and Second Ave Subway), but more can gained within NYC proper more cheaply by merely exploiting the existing rail and road infrastructure. It's really the peripheral areas that need better connections to each other, and it's the Commuter Rail network that's going to need to play that role.
 

THE OBSERVER

Perhaps all rail lines (LIRR, MetroNorth, NJ TRANSIT) are merged into a regional rail network similar to Paris's RER Network. And maybe we can reconstruct some highways too, while we're at it. Like the Cross Bronx and Gowanus.
 

FDW

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THE OBSERVER said:
Perhaps all rail lines (LIRR, MetroNorth, NJ TRANSIT) are merged into a regional rail network similar to Paris's RER Network. And maybe we can reconstruct some highways too, while we're at it. Like the Cross Bronx and Gowanus.
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Hold your horses, I'm not going to talk anymore about New York until I get there. (Though you did just touch on one thing I have planned for the region.)
 
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