The MTA's proposed Brooklyn-Queens transit line might hyperlink up with LaGuardia Airport.
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The MTA’s proposed Brooklyn-Queens practice line might hyperlink up with a number of the alternate options to exchange the Port Authority’s AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport, transit officers mentioned Thursday.
Each businesses are presently mulling choices for his or her respective initiatives on the course of Gov. Kathy Hochul, together with gentle rail, heavy rail and bus fast transit.
“It has not been misplaced on both of the 2 initiatives that there could also be some synergy in connecting the 2,” MTA development official Mike Schiffer mentioned throughout a presentation earlier than the New York Metropolis Transit Rider Council.
Hochul’s proposed Interborough Categorical would run alongside an present 14-mile rail line between Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and western Queens close to LaGuardia Airport. Port Authority officers, in the meantime, are mulling various routes to ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “fallacious approach” AirTrain to Citi Subject that might intersect and even overlap with the IBX, Schiffer mentioned.
“I do know that a few their choices are contemplating a connection that Jackson Heights and we’re anticipating this service would go to someplace in that neighborhood as properly,” he mentioned.
“They’re after all taking a look at different choices in Astoria. And we’re trying up in that neighborhood as properly.”
Schiffer mentioned the MTA was even contemplating merging the 2 initiatives.
“It’s a dense, thrilling space,” he mentioned of Jackson Heights and western Queens. “It’s actually onerous to shoehorn new companies, significantly round 74th [Street].”
The MTA and Port Authority are each within the means of amassing public enter on their respective choices.
Transit advocates have mentioned the connection to LaGuardia ought to be built-in into the bus and subway community.
The unique path to Willets Level, which was mocked by transit advocates and Queens elected officers together with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for taking passengers east towards Lengthy Island as a substitute of west towards Manhattan, stays on the desk.
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