Where the New York City Subway Doesn't Go
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Where the New York City Subway Doesn't Go
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#2The lack of subway access to LGA is what I, an occasional traveler to NYC, find the most mind-boggling.
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#3Walk people, walk! Why only 500m, it's only a 6 minute walk! Not including traffic, so might be some more. Increase that radius to a 10 minute walk on one end and a there is a lot more coverage (pi x r2). And you're hitting your daily movement lower limit of 30 minutes. Or am I really thinking outside the US box?
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#4The lack of subway access to LGA is what I, an occasional traveler to NYC, find the most mind-boggling.
There's a pretty decent bus, it costs $2.75, and if you can spare a an extra ~30m travel time, it's worth it.
http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/NewQ70LimitedStopService_br...
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#5The author is misleading about lack of subway access to JFK airport. I have traveled many times to JFK by subway. He is technically correct that the subway does not tunnel underneath JFK and does not go to terminals. However, you take the A train and then hop onto the AirTrain provided by JFK to get to the terminal.
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#6It doesn't go to New Jersey either, but it should.
http://m.nydailynews.com/opinion/extend-7-train-secaucus-art...
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#7The author is misleading about lack of subway access to JFK airport. I have traveled many times to JFK by subway. He is technically correct that the subway does not tunnel underneath JFK and does not go to terminals. However, you take the A train and then hop onto the AirTrain provided by JFK to get to the terminal.
Yup. Three major lines (BMT Nassau, IND Sixth Ave, IND Eighth Ave) converge in Jamaica, where it's only a few minutes' walk to transfer to the AirTrain to JFK. I've never had a problem getting to/from JFK via train, but LGA is a little tougher (though the increased 125th St. bus service has helped a lot).
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#8The radius of the circle the author used, 500m, is a bit under twice the length of a Manhattan block.
I can guarantee you that your typical regular transit user is capable of walking a couple blocks without having to stop for a Gatorade.
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#9Walk people, walk! Why only 500m, it's only a 6 minute walk! Not including traffic, so might be some more. Increase that radius to a 10 minute walk on one end and a there is a lot more coverage (pi x r 2). And you're hitting your daily movement lower limit of 30 minutes. Or am I really thinking outside the US box?
Walking sucks in the winter. It's never ridiculously cold (certainly not midwest or Canada cold), but windchill is frequent and kinda nasty if you have literally any skin exposed.
Especially in the outer boroughs (not so much in Manhattan), snow doesn't get cleaned up very quickly either. Walking can definitely be a bit of an obstacle course - ice, snow banks blocking the sidewalk, etc.
Anyway blah blah blah first world problems, just my perspective on it.
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#10Ignoring the bus lines is pretty wacky. I grew up in Queens, and rode the bus all of the time. My dad took the bus to the express train to manhattan for several years.
The bus isn't sexy, but it works and is often less unpleasant than the subway.
Also, you need to remember how places like Queens developed. It was mostly little downs until about 100 years ago. The house I grew up in was part of a 120 acre farm as late as 1897! It developed into a sort of inner suburb... And as density increased, the cost of acquiring land and building infrastructure hockey-sticked upward.