From CBS New York:Officials in Queens have called on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to do more to help Long Island City businesses in the face of planned weekend shutdowns on the 7 line this year.
The MTA announced last month that it will shut down the line between Queensboro Plaza and Times Square for 13 weekends between the end of this month and July.
The authority said the shutdowns are necessary for maintenance and signal work.
Queens officials argue that halting the line for such an extended period of time will isolate residents in the neighborhood.
The city councilman and other Queens officials met with MTA officials on Thursday to discuss ways in which the authority could help local businesses while the 7 line is down.
Van Bramer said he wants the MTA to subsidize East River ferry service to Manhattan and allow customers to use MetroCards while train service is down. He said ferry service would be just a few minutes door-to-door from Long Island City to Midtown and that it would only cost $4 a ride.
Officials also want the MTA to provide express bus service to and from Manhattan, a request that has been made before, as well as a campaign promoting Long Island City businesses while the line is halted.
Whatever happened to caveat emptor? This work has been going on for decades, it's not something new. No one was crying before LIC got yuppified. "Halting the line for such an extended period of time will isolate residents in the neighborhood..." Good, so they can spend their money at local businesses.
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Won't the line shut down make it harder for others to get to the neighborhood to spend at those same local businesses crappy? Advertise the discount it as a summer special on the ferry and you might get some tourists to leave Manhattan and spend money in Queens.
Yes, because throngs of moneyed Manhattanites and tourists usually visit LIC on the weekend...
LIC has soooo much here to attract the Manhattanite!
Especially since you ripped out the neighborhood for faceless towers.
BTW, Jimmy, everyone in Sunnyside wants to know when you are taking our community board from us and giving it the tower people.
LIC is pointless. I'd rather spend my dollars in Manhattan proper or travel a bit further to the Jackson Heights or Flushing area to get my taste of diversity.
Plenty more money leaves to go elsewhere than comes in from tourism. God forbid they can't escape their own neighborhood.
I lived in Long Island City for years before it was developed and the same situation with the subway, but no one made a big deal then, now all of a sudden it has become a big deal.
"Isolate residents in the neighborhood", tell me exactly how that is done, I thought everything you want is right there in this overdeveloped mini-Manhattan, that most people cannot afford anyway.
The seven train always has signal problems. Nothing will ever change after all their closures. They never change the signals on that line.
That's his newly found voting block.
the only thing Jimmy cares about is LIC which is not good what about he people and the stores on Roosevelt Avenue all the way to Flushing I guess these people do not count -- if there is a way to get his picture in the paper he will always find a way --
" This work has been going on for decades, it's not something new."
Not on this scale and frequency. I've gone to Queens via the 7 weekly since March 1990. In past there would be a week or two where these interruptions occurred --never for months on-end.
That having been said, this is an ancient system and frequently overcrowded. The new signal systems are -supposed- to allow more frequent service....
Sorry, but I worked weekends in Manhattan and can tell you that when it wasn't baseball season, I had to transfer to an overcrowded N at Queensboro Plaza in order to get to Manhattan. And it wasn't every other weekend. It was EVERY weekend.
There's diversity in LIC alright - a beige factory building next to a red factory building next to a grey factory building.
can't help but to enjoy a little schandefruede at the hipsters/gentrifiers that have ruined the landscape here that they might have to wait a tad longer to go to their decadent parties and quirky music and art shows,now they will know how the other half deals with the worst transit system in the world(this includes the R train to Brooklyn suspension).Jimmied needs to give the tower people pacifiers and tell them to deal with it,that's if they plan to live in LIC for the long haul.
How's the noise level from the train yard these days?
Queens people has been screwed by MTA for decades, and they can not complain? Crapper, you sound too submissive...
Yes, I agree, Queens has been screwed by the MTA, mainly with regard to bus service. But most of us realize that the subway needs constant extra maintenance given its age, and simply make alternate plans to get around when it's not running normally. Sacrifice is not something these tower people are used to.
"Jimmied needs to give the tower people pacifiers and tell them to deal with it,that's if they plan to live in LIC for the long haul."
They won't be in it for the long haul. The tower sheeple will move on to whatever neighborhood is the next it neighborhood
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