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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (174096)	8/18/2003 3:49:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574679

I lived there for a number of years...they are not practical...there are hordes of people that descend on Manhattan daily and even that is a fraction of the commuting that takes place within the 5 boroughs and outlying areas. Ferries are too slow and you have to have a second method of commuting from where they drop you off. The newer ferries are not slow at all and like I said to Joe, they don't have to worry about gridlock or subway slowdowns. As for a second method of commuting, how is that not like transferring from the BMT line to the IRT line? They should set up a couple of ferry ports in Manhattan and then put rail/subway spurs to the ports so that people can transfer directly. That probably already exists in the ferry port in lower Manhattan. I'm not sure why I am pushing ferries although last Thurs. looked like a nightmare in NYC and ferry service was one of the ways things were mitigated to some degree. ted