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BGOL NY Transit: MTA to sell station names & creating the X train

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MTA planning new train line for Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx


Now that the improved G train is going to usher us into a glorious age where, uh, we don’t complain about the G train, we need something new to unite Brooklyn’s subway riders in agitation. And it has to be more than hot subway platforms or people clipping their nails on the train, everyone can complain about that. Oh of course: it’s freaking impossible to make a trip to south Brooklyn without going into Manhattan. Enter the X line.

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The Atlantic Cities dug up an old blog post someone had written about the proposed line, which would run through south Brooklyn and up to Queens and the Bronx all while avoiding Manhattan, as an example of a transit project the mayoral candidates should be calling for. We couldn’t agree more.

That black line you see running through Brooklyn, crossing all the subway lines is the proposed X line. For us Brooklynites, it would go from Sunset Park, through south Brooklyn, up towards Queens and the Bronx by way of Broadway Junction​
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Which would mean it would connect to every train line in Brooklyn, except for the G train. So hey, a new thing for G train riders to complain about too!

Originally thought up of in 1996, the line, as designed, would cross with 20 subway lines, according to the Atlantic, and carry 76,000 people per day. Given that the MTA is paying more attention to us outer borough slobs with our low-brow expressions like “Oh yeah?” and “C’mere a minute,” the Atlantic is correct in pointing out that what could get it the extra heat it needs is someone running for mayor to start agitating for it. Hey, doesn’t Anthony Weiner desperately need to change the subject?
 
M.T.A. Considers Selling Rights to Name Subway Stations

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More of New York City’s subway stations could eventually bear the names of deep-pockets sponsors — for the right price.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/n...ts-to-name-subway-stations.html?src=twr&_r=1&

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has for the first time proposed a formal set of rules for renaming its facilities, and the authority’s board is expected to discuss the proposal at meetings next week.

The authority cautioned that no name changes were imminent, and many board members have long expressed concerns about selling some of the subway system’s most significant elements to the highest bidders.

But officials said that given the authority’s perpetual quest for revenue streams, the option could not be overlooked.

“For us and for systems around the country, this is a revenue strategy that’s being discussed more and more seriously,” said Stephen J. Morello, counselor to the chairman, Thomas F. Prendergast, at the transportation authority.

Mr. Morello said that “from time to time,” potential advertisers had reached out to the authority about station naming rights, though he could not discuss whether any negotiations were currently active.

The authority experimented with station naming rights in 2009, when the confluence of stops at Atlantic Avenue, Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn was renamed “Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center” as part of a 20-year, $4 million sponsorship deal.

Officials suggested that any future changes, like the first renaming, would not replace all geographic information in a station name.

“We don’t want to be confusing people,” said Allen P. Cappelli, a member of the authority’s board from Staten Island. “There are neighborhoods where I would be very hesitant because of the geographic significance.”

According to a copy of the proposed policy, hubs could be renamed only if station names remain “accurate” and “help orient customers as they navigate the M.T.A. network.”
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The policy would also require that the authority accept renaming requests only from prospective sponsors “with a unique or iconic geographic, historic or other connection to such facility that would be readily apparent to typical M.T.A. customers.”

The guidelines would apply across all of the transportation authority’s operations, including the railroad and bus systems and its Bridges and Tunnels division.

The names of some of the crossings have been altered in the past, though not to promote a corporate brand. There is the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, previously the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, named for a former governor. The former Triborough Bridge, connecting Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, was renamed for Robert F. Kennedy in 2008.

In February, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney suggested naming the subway station at 77th Street and Lexington Avenue for Edward I. Koch, the three-term New York City mayor who had died days earlier. Mr. Koch had often greeted riders at the stop’s entrance.

The authority was unmoved.

“We do not rename stations for people,” a spokesman for the authority said at the time. “The whole premise is that we want to keep stations with street names.”
 
Also a proposal to go out to my area in Queens toward Rosedale. No Thanks. I'm fine with the LIRR.
 
So they are renaming the G train? Lmao

Yo Metalface don't nobody care bout Rosesale ole valley stream ass niggas
 
Exactly, so stay the fuck out. Don't need any trains out here. Enough of these BK mfers moving out here as it is.
 
are u kidding? they been working on the 2nd avenue subway for DECADES and they're just gonna throw a line up? naw.
the station names sound just like them greedy muthafuckas tho
 
playahaitian said:
MTA planning new train line for Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx


Now that the improved G train is going to usher us into a glorious age where, uh, we don’t complain about the G train, we need something new to unite Brooklyn’s subway riders in agitation.
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What improvements??


I just had to wait 30 minutes for a train last Saturday morning.

Until you can transfer for free from Fulton St. to Atlantic ave., I don't want to hear shit about no damned improved G train.

As for a new train line in South BK. that wouldn't mean shit to me unless it goes to the city.

Rent is still pretty fair in South BK, but a train that only goes to Queens and the Bronx does me no good.

I'll keep my ass in my overpriced shitty-ass apartment in dope-ass Clinton Hill.



 

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