![]() ![]() Oops – there go your taxes again.Ĭonsider safety. Neighborhoods that are deemed less profitable will be given poor service, if any, and allowed toįall into disrepair unless the city steps in to do something about it. Private corporations are interested in profit, not service or the greater good of the city. By offering service to the furthest reaches and to poor neighborhoods, the city can keep those areas vital andĮncourage growth. Mass transit is a service designed to enhance the resources of the city. We will not get anything back if the city were to sell the assets to private corporations. Secondly, the system was already paid for by the public. The city is in the hole, and will just put the money elsewhere. First of all, privatizing mass transit will not lower your taxes significantly. ![]() Your ideological determination to privatize everything fails on many levels. Of course, since the riding public would not tolerate this, there would be regulation. The real cutback is to southern Brooklyn riders who will lose the extra rush hour service on the West End Line into lower Manhattan.Īnd by the way – if the subways were in private hands, run for profit, you would have premium night fares or no service overnight, less or no service to outlying areas, and, in all likelihood, zoned fares. In July 1968, but was scaled back to just the “KK” Jamaica/East NY/57th Street service, which was short-lived). The steady erosion of demand from the JMZ territory into lower Manhattan makes this move a good one to the extent that M riders will have a direct ride into midtown (something that was actually going to have happened Getting rid of the “V” designation will not deprive current This will have virtually no impact on current V riders, except those who use the 2nd Avenue station, so the slant of the article is misleading. About 18,000 riders are expected to benefit from the decision, although the strapped Officials also said Friday that they plan to keep several bus routes that were expected to be cut, including the Bx18 bus in the Bronx. Will there be confusion? “New Yorkers take this type of thing in stride,” Mr. The last color change occurred in 2001, when the Q train, then orange, turned yellow after being rerouted onto Broadway from Avenue of the Americas. ![]() Since the M will now run along Avenue of the Americas, it joins the B, D and F trains in sporting an orange logo. Since 1979, the subway lines have been color-coded based on the avenue they follow in Manhattan. (The V was born in 2001 the M dates back decades.) “People were more comfortable with the M designation, being an older and more historic train designation than the V,” said Charles Seaton, a spokesman for New York City Transit. An outcry at public hearings led transit planners But the new route was expected to be called the V, with the M train disappearing. The changes, which would go into effect in June, were announced earlier this year. M train service in Lower Manhattan and southern Brooklyn would be eliminated. Travel north to the Forest Hills-71st Avenue stop in Queens. But at its first Manhattan stop, at Essex Street, the train would take over the V’s route and The M would continue to make its usual run from western Queens through Williamsburg, Brooklyn, into Lower Manhattan. Under that plan, expected to be approved next week, the M train, which has proudly brandished a brown logo since the advent of the current color-coded system in 1979, would be rebranded orange and take the place of ![]()
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