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While continuing to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, New York's sprawling transit system experienced plenty of upheaval in 2022 — from new leadership at
A derelict rail line is being reimagined as a linear park, like Manhattan’s High Line. But in a borough that lacks both green space and transportation, locals wonder whether its best use would the original one.
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Give credit where credit is due with the Interborough Express proposed by Gov. Hochul: For a governor to finally take notice of an underused freight-rail line running from Brooklyn into Queens, and pushing to convert that line to passenger rail, is an idea whose time has finally come.
Commuters say they're often stranded without a direct subway link between the boroughs.
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials haven't decided whether to go with heavy rail akin to commuter or subway trains, a specially built bus system, or light rail. But a few constraints laid out by agency experts at town hall discussion could prompt the agency to chug ahead with light rail.