For ALM in the Bronx, I think Fordham is grossly overrated for both trams and ALM. South Bronx Hub/Melrose is growing as a place of employment, so I have (1) 145th/Broadway to Dyre via 145th/St. Nick, 145th/Lenox, 149/GC, 149/3, and Hunts Point.
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Fordham Road/Pelham Parkway is not overrated for rail. It is the busiest bus corridor in the Bronx by a significant margin, with over five times the ridership of the Bx15 and three times that of the Bx6. It is also the only reasonably straight route that has easy transfers to every line it crosses.
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Third Ave. covers Bx15 and Bx41 -- a major rapid transit desert in the Bronx serving some of the poorest areas, and which combined (at least pre-COVID) have higher ridership than Bx12. You can get rid of the SBSes and Bx19 with a 3rd Ave. or Webster Ave. ALM.
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Bx12 has high turnover, is further out, and the only underground station for good connections is the Concourse/Fordham.
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This ridership pattern is literally the point of the IBX. The Bx12 has high turnover in part because it functions as the major Bronx circumfrential route. Why are transfers to elevated stations a dealbreaker? In-system elevated to subway transfers are common systemwide.
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Elevated station transfers aren't a dealbreaker -- they're just a strike against the proposal the same way failing to provide grade-separated rail coverage to dense rapid transit deserts in EJ communities (e.g., Morrisania, Claremont, Belmont) is.
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huh
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Also, if you look at my proposed route for 3rd Ave., it goes from 125th/Broadway to Pelham Shopping Center via 3rd Ave. (incl. 3/149), so there are multiple places to transfer (including 125/Broadway, 125/St Nick, 125/Lenox, 125/Lex, 138/3, and 3/149).
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This lets Dyre keep its 3rd/149th and GC/149th Connection while adding Hunts Point and transfers all the Manhattan-bound lines except SAS-125th. Also, gives Washington Hts. a stronger connection to South Bronx Hub.
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(2) 125th/Broadway to Pelham Shopping Center via 125th St., 3rd Ave., Webster/Gun Hill Rd. This is basically restoring the 3rd Ave. El. with crosstown features. (3) Bx6 for Yankee Stadium and Hunts Point Meat Market.
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I wanted to do something for western Bronx to E. Bronx hospitals, but that is just a lower priority than serving the markets I listed. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
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