From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 10:17:41 PM UTC-4, Bolwerk wrote:   
   > On 09/13/2015 05:52 PM, John Levine wrote:   
      
   > >> And the people who use it should pay and extra buck to ride there   
   > >> and cover the costs of the bonds issued to pay for that useless   
   > >> extension.   
   > > The MTA says once the Chelsea Piers development is open, they expect   
   > > it to be the busiest single line station in the system.  There's   
   > > already plenty of traffic whenever something's happening at the   
   > > Javits Center.   
   >   
   > Well, except maybe for Flushing, that's sort of believable.  Most   
   > stations have prety small catchment areas because NYC has such short   
   > station spacing.   
      
   The Chicago "L"s originally had stations two blocks (1/4 mile) apart,   
   because they were competing with streetcars -- only a very few of those   
   very short gaps remain, though I don't know when the 4-block distance   
   became the new normal.   
      
   That may have been the case on the Flushing line, but it wasn't for the   
   Manhattan subways, which _replaced_ the streetcars (see Doug Most, *The   
   Race Underground* -- he hates els, though, and gives no information at   
   all about their introduction).   
      
   > > I wonder how long it'll be until they build the 10th Ave station.   
   >   
   > Unless the feds pay the bulk of it, probably never. :(   
      
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