Ok, so going by one of his proposals the runs up Second Avenue and not to mention that the has been serving Astoria for quite some time. You’ll have 2 services run from terminal to terminal but via different routes and both of these are Broadway Express, how do you think it will look on paper? Astoria gets screwed by new Second Ave Subway, riders forced onto local. Also handles Lower Manhattan as it is but sending every other train to 9th Avenue is a waste of resources because it’s in the middle of nowhere and who would ride to Brooklyn via Lower Manhattan when they could go via Bridge quicker, and possibly creating a traffic jam at 36th Street if a and pull in at the same time. 9th Avenue is only used if you have nowhere to place a train.
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