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March 10, 2007
Atlantic Yards and the subway: a disaster in the making?
The Columbia Journalist
By Samuel Goldsmith
Two transit watchdog groups, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the Straphangers Campaign, say the additional Atlantic Yards ridership will cripple the station, perhaps to the point of incapacitation.
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Ratner does include a new subway entrance in the Atlantic Yards design. But the MTA has no plans to change service at Atlantic Avenue--with or without Atlantic Yards, according to MTA spokesman Tim O’Brian. Parts of the station were remodeled in 2004, so no new improvements are expected in the near future, he said. More trains could be added after basketball games, like the baseball special at Yankee Stadium, because there is a surplus of cars after rush hour. But before games and during rush hour, “practically everything is out there on the tracks,” said O’Brian.
Posted by amy at March 10, 2007 11:35 AM