Long Island Railroad Jamaica Capacity "Improvements"
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Published 2024-01-27
0:50 The East Side Access Mitigation Project
3:10 Connection to the Rockaway Beach Branch: Subway versus Long Island Railroad
5:00 Consultant AECOM's impossible subway connection, and work based on it performed
6:50 Rego Park Station
7:55 Glendale Junction
11:25 Richmond Hill
12:00 Jamaica
13:00 Three through tracks needed for train capacity are block by the new Platform F
14:00 Eastbound mainline through track from west of Jamaica
15:05 The purpose of the MTA's planned flyover at Hall Interlocking
15:35 The intended eastern approach track to Station Track 1 never built
17:20 Speculation on why the intended approach track wasn't built
18:50 Planned flyover misses the mark, is premature, a waste of money like Platform F
20:15 The correct fix for bunching of westbound tracks at Hall Interlocking
23:40 More through tracks and a possible Hall flyover for westbound through traffic
24:50 Storage yard is constrained by poor placement of Central Control and Airtrain Tml. Bldg.
26:45 Mainline westbound flyover running off the eastbound through track at Jay Interlocking
29:50 Summation and call for action