From the Daily News:New York will spend up to $250,000 to jump-start the idea of extending the 7 train all the way to Secaucus, N.J. - but New Jersey hasn't pitched in a dime.
The city hired engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff this week to analyze how many riders the line could serve, how they would connect to the NJTransit train hub in Secaucus and - most importantly - how much it would cost.
Their study is due in three months, which Deputy Mayor Robert Steel said will help show government and transportation agencies in the region whether to go forward.
Other officials in New York and New Jersey are looking at the idea, but haven't put up any cash to make it happen.
It could give New Jersey residents their first direct train line to Grand Central Terminal, as well as to see the Mets or the U.S. Open in Queens.
The city is paying $2.1 billion to extend the 7 train to 34th St. and 11th Ave., where it will serve a massive office and housing development planned for the West Side rail yards.
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Looks like the city wants to tap some of them tower people on the other side the Hudson and bring them in to shop, theatre district at taxpayer expense.
People in Queens familys don’t have $1000 to blow on theater tickets or Tiffany jewelry.
Waite a second, didnt the MTA say it was broke ?
If you read the article, you'll see that the MTA is saying just that. The push for this is coming from City Hall.
This would probably pay off in the end, as the MTA would be getting a lot of fares that would otherwise go to PATH.
So what we need to know is how the people getting the money are connected to city hall. We all know this 'study' will never result in an actual tunnel being built. It stinks of a political give away from our pal Hosni, I mean Mike B...
Give the subway to eastern Queens before extending it to N.J.
Won't happen...........
The 7 should not run to Seacucus. It barely functions as it is - we don't need all those sick NJ passengers getting on the 7 to shut it down. Since when do we pay for considering NJ passengers? Let them build the truck tunnel under the Hudson - then we will consider extending the 7 to the swamps & lousy JETS team games.
No, No, No.
Not when we cannot run what we have.
More services for the out of town uber rich paid for by New Yorkers who own houses here by our ever increasing real estate taxes. This is exactly what leads all the greedy "developers" to knock down family-oriented low rise housing to put up illegally built shoddy barracks a/k/a/ Queens Crap. Tax abatements, tax abatements, and more tax abatements. This cycle will never end and will drag NYC down with it even more and drag the economy from bad to worse.
To think in these terms is unsustainable and coming from City Hall now with so much decaying in this city, really should be taken as criminal activity.
Let's drive out what's the rest of the middle class now why don't we.
Give the subway to eastern Queens before extending it to N.J.
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Don't stop in eastern Queens, extend it North and East to Westchester Ave. in the Bronx.
Has anyone yet explained how doubling the length of the train's route does not result in all New Yorkers waiting twice as long for the 7 to reach us? If you're going from Sunnyside to Corona, for example, you're still waiting twice as long for a train to return from Secaucus as when the train turns around in Times Square. And if this will be solved by doubling the number of trains, why can't they do that now?
what we need is toextend the n subway along the M60 bus route then to Fort Lee
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