It used to and still can run to Forest Hills on the QB branch.

With Issue (2) are you implying that pedestrians shouldn’t be able to cross the loop at all?

Yeah it was an emergency move to buy time to pass the political football and kick the can down the road. The reduction caused other problems, such as creating an artificial bottleneck resulting in massive traffic backups. It was always meant to be temporary.

Worse is Hicks heading north, since every single person wants to turn left onto Atlantic to then get on the BQE. Constant traffic all day.

It created a bottleneck causing larger traffic jams at more hours of the day. Demand stayed pretty much the same because there aren't many great options for getting to the Verrazano to leave the city for Brooklyn and Queens residents.

We do not have the transload facilities anywhere in the city or Nassau County to have this work and you're not fitting well cars anywhere along that branch. That type of wagon also cannot go on any lines with 3rd rail or you no longer have a working 3rd rail (because it will be smashed to pieces). Also, all locomotives that would be used on this line have to be specially modified, again, to not destroy the 3rd rail on the line. Same issue with CSX dispatching from Selkirk down to Oak Point and over the Hell Gate...Special power is needed and you're constrained to standard bulk hauling rail cars, not wells.

I'm as much of an intermodal freight transit dork as anyone, but unless you can scale it up to Plate H double stacks and have the facilities to handle them, it's not gonna happen. If not, you're putting standard boxes on flat cars and running them in single strings and at that point, you might as well use a truck. In addition, I you can even put high cube boxes on flatcars and have them work on the ancient tunnels along the Branch. The clearance is just too low.

Oh boy, I’ve gotten some straightforward answers that have made me think this is pretty settled science. Are you telling me it’s more complex?

I'm shocked. SHOCKED Adams only cares about more cars on the road.

It's already 3 lanes each way. The reduction was an emergency political football to buy time before the thing collapses, and has added a bottleneck causing massive backups at all times. Rebuilding with 3 lanes is maintaining the current size, not an expansion.

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The ergonomics of the bridge complete changed. And they changed how it interacts with the LIE.

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It’s less weight on the outer most lane which reduces the stress on the support. The road acts like a lever in that section. Hold a stick out and hang a shopping bag with a can of soup in it. As you move the bag further out it gets heavier.

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Wait the new cards are actually out?

>$1.4 million a year
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>the centers have helped prevent nearly 700 overdoses

Let's say those 700 overdoses were in a single year (they weren't, because they were operating since 2021, but let's do that to steelman the argument).

That's $2,000 per overdose prevented. A narcan dose costs between $22 and $60. (In Europe, that would cost $3)

That makes it quite profitable to be preventing overdoses. And actually reducing addition would be quite costly for this high growth industrial complex.

I'm still so mad they're making us switch in what's a blatant cash grab which only hurts the working, daily commuter.

So these are supposed to be safe injection sights right? What you’re telling me is that 700 times, a professional, pumped someone with enough drugs to kill them just to treat them and save their lives.

i love it when fellow geeks show their cred.

It reduced the incline grade so the climb is easier for large trucks. They also reworked the LIE interchange. No lanes were added to the through BQE, just the LIE ramps.

Yea the traffic on local streets in that area have been insane since they reduced the lanes. I’m surprised the people who live in that area haven’t complained or maybe a bigger deal out of it.

The G, J, and technically the M. Though there is a noticeable transit desert which can and should be bridged. The tracks are there ffs.

The G train has like 1 station at the tip of queens, it barely counts

I love the design by why bother with a card when you can just pay with your phone?

One can support inducing different things. Inducing transit ridership for example usually is looked at as a positive.