#subway expansion
What to do about Flushing: Regional Rail and Extending the 7 Train
What to do about Flushing: Regional Rail and Extending the 7 Train
This post was written with the Tech Transit Association, a youth run transit organization/club at Brooklyn Technical High School, and with the help of Transit Talk NYC. The organization advocates for better transit in NYC and beyond. The organization’s current project is the 7 train project, and it advocates for better service for commuters who use the 7 train. The TTA is Edward Zheng, Gabriel…
Second Avenue Subway Phase 2: The case for a crosstown extension on 125th Street
Second Avenue Subway Phase 2: The case for a crosstown extension on 125th Street. Guest author Kristian Laverick
Guest Author: Kristian Laverick
When it was originally conceived in the 1920’s, the Second Avenue Subway (SAS) was intended as a main trunk line running north-south through Manhattan with branches extending to The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. With the expansiveness of the subway system in Manhattan as it is a hundred years later, the borough doesn’t need more north-south trunk lines: it just…
