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- Quinn to hold meeting that no one can attend
- Bloomberg's dirty little secret: City hospital ha...
- A very expensive non-transfer
- Failure to heed the warnings
- DOT continues to put bike lanes in stupid places
- More hurricane ugliness
- DOE peddles its B.S. in LIC
- A summary of the local devastation
- Bloomberg and Quinn think waterfront development a...
- Bloomberg doesn't see flooded Gowanus as a problem
- Vito may be the king of all tweeders
- CB11 to vote on Huang project
- Addabbo flip-flops over gay marriage
- Crane collapses in high winds
- And so the stupidity begins
- Gotta love those absentee landlords
- Some Rockaway residents are staying put
- Elmhurst site is, indeed, a cemetery
- Law-and-order candidate violates Sanitation code
- Cats saved from Kew Gardens hoarder
- It's time to get packing
- How badly will he handle this one?
- Coney Island boardwalk plan a bunch of lawsuits wa...
- Failure to file may soon send pols to jail
- More gambling heading to Aqueduct?
- Rockaway Beach a victim of its own success
- New face for old synagogue
- Another former lobbyist to run for Queens BP
- Doing more with less
- A question of fairness
- Hardhats busted for fake safety cards
- Tweeding on the Park?
- Astoria train noise abatement plan
- Queens is home to vibrant and diverse cannibal cops
- Wi-Fi to be installed in Queens subway stations
- An old familiar story
- Islanders moving to Brooklyn
- Baldeo charged with corruption
- Non-Asians need not apply?
- Illegal hotel operator sued by the City
- Sanitation in NYC is great...or is it?
- Queens native gives $100M to fix up Central Park
- Bloomberg taxi plan a total failure
- FDNY prioritizes safety inspections
- Sanders the next one in trouble?
- Queens native back home
- What it all boils down to
- Because what Queens needs is a 3rd proposed conven...
- Consumers may get whacked by regulatory decision
- Those in historic districts think restrictions are...
- CUNY Law School opens in LIC
- They tweed in their own homes as well
- Broad Channel residents fined due to DEP incompetence
- There are some who think Bloomberg is a master urb...
- Continued hysteria over Greek Nazis
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- Farm Museum to tend to cemetery - if city buys it ...
- What a soccer stadium will actually cost us
- Large SI site next to be crappified
- Koo notices that Downtown Flushing has an issue
- Cost of living rises faster than income
- Hot sheets hotel killed
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- Hoped-for greenstreets put on hold
- Traveling Queens student denied re-entry into USA
- Johnny wiretap transcript excerpt
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- Doctor built illegally on colonial burial ground
- Cab driver assaulted Queens-bound passenger
- City wants more Mexican tourists
- Yankee Stadium garage scheme strikes out
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- Some pols using campaign funds to fund charities
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8 comments:
That older blond haired lady goes a long way explaining why the ilk of Vallone is in power in that community and why the Vallones never get anywhere once they leave the safety of their local lumpen prols.
Two questions for Peter:
If its so loud, why are you encouraging six story buildings where two used to stand along the tracks?
Is the noise a factor in dampening development and rental of units along that tracks and that is why you are interested and the city responds?
Take note: if its Astoria, the only time things get notice is if it encourages development.
You can't get rid of the “bad” parts of technology and retain only the “good” parts.
So basically, DEAL WITH IT.
MTA is simply going to make sure nothing is broken. They're going to find that...nothing is broken, that's just what trains sound like.
Actually CWR (continuosy welded rail) and rubber isolators will cut down the noise considerably.................except that screeching in the turns.....
Why can't they cover up the metal like its covered on the seven line on queens blvd, sure its a big job but would last forever..
Anon No. 6: You would have to completely rebuild the entire elevated structure. Who has the money for that?
CWR still need expansion joints that make noise. If you ever went over the Manhattan Bridge on a train, you know what they sound like. Until the MTA converts the Astoria line to CBTC, you also still need track circuits for block signalling. That requires electrically insulated rail joints.
The MTA could look into new ladder track technology that support and isolate the rail. Look up LR55. It was designed for light rail, but can work for subways.
The screeching around curves can be reduced by swapping out the rail car bogies with radial steering axles that allow the wheels to more follow the curve instead of grinding into it. Its one thing that TA didn't consider when ordering the cars in the current fleet. Better flange greasing could also mitigate the screech.
There's a big difference between the Queens Blvd viaduct and Astoria El. That viaduct is a hybrid concrete and steel structure requires column footings large enough to block the parking lane on 31st st. Additionally, 31st street is much narrower and runs under the Astoria El, while Queens Blvd is wider and brackets the Queens Blvd Viaduct. The metal El structure, with all the noise it transmits and generates, also lets some light down to the street below.
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