Queens Commuter Rail

Nearly ten years ago, I wrote about the ‘Triboro RX’, a plan to bring passenger trains to the freight tracks of Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. That plan has never gone anywhere, until now. It has re-emerged as the “Inter-borough Express”—a plan to bring passenger trains to much of the same route, with the exception […]

Over the years, we’ve published a few catty articles on this site that attacked some poorly thought out new transit ideas running through Queens. So let’s be clear: we need to build all of it.

This past weekend, the NYC DOT (very) quietly released their study on creating a new rail transit route through Queens. Let’s take a look at this seemingly futile piece of research into a transit project that won’t exist anytime soon.

I really want to be explicit about this: I am one of the biggest transit advocates you’ll ever meet. Strong transit options are what made NYC a great city, and could be leveraged further to make it one of the most ecologically sustainable cities on the planet. Unfortunately our subway and rail systems have not […]

If there’s one thing I can’t get enough of, it’s stupid politicians with stupid ideas talking about things they clearly don’t know anything about.

In a separate post, I dissected Elizabeth Crowley’s ‘Light Rail to The Mall’ plan. Realizing this probably makes me look like a really mean spirited guy, allow me to put forth a far more superior plan.

The abandoned Maspeth LIRR “Station”. There have been some recent news stories about the NYC city council trying to plan some better transit options around NYC – one of those ideas is to revive passenger train service along the ‘Lower Montauk’ tracks through Queens.

Do you want to see the city spend 10s of millions of dollars condemning hundreds family homes? Would you like to see severe service disruptions to the N and Q lines in Queens, including a potential full closure (to last months, or years) of the entire route between Queensboro Plaza and Ditmars blvd? Do you […]