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  • Sandy: New York! New York! The A train line...

    The A Train line lives! The H train lives!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKh2PGp17Lk

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iVYlfqiA8I

    Among the indignities visited on the Rockaways by Hurricane Sandy was the destruction of its sole subway route, the A train. As The Observer first reported, this was not merely a case of flooding, but the very foundations of the Broad Channel crossing washing away, creating months, or longer, of reconstruction work for the MTA.

    Still, the agency took the unusual step of trucking a bunch of subway cars out to the Rockaways so it could at least run shuttle service along the peninsula, with a bus in Far Rockaway then ferrying riders to the A train in Howard Beach. The service will be up and running as of 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, and Governor Cuomo even announced that it would be free until regular subway service is restored. Free subway service—finally some good news for the Rockaways.

    As for those wondering why it is called the H train, no, it is not a reference to hurricanes or heroin. That was the original name of the Rockaways shuttle, the run from Broad Channel that runs south to Beach 116th Street. Actually, it was the HH train, when the system merged in 1967, and then it became just the H train when the double letter trains were eliminated.

    http://observer.com/2012/11/the-new-...the-rockaways/
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    Good news, will certainly alleviate some of the discomfort and inconvenience.
    I saw it on ABC TV this a.m.

    There was one disgruntled man, who had nothing good to say, can't appreciate the effort being undertaken to have normality returned to the area.

    ... need a volunteer to throw him onto the tracks
    Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
    - Langston Hughes

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