The following is a post, dated earlier today, by Philip McManus of the Queens Public Transportation Committee in response to an October 2013 article in the Queens Courier entitled MTA plan includes restoring Rockaway Beach Rail Line.
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Philip McManus
Do you hate your stressful commute? Is it too long, overcrowded and unreliable?
Why does Queens have so much congestion and overcrowded roadways, buses and trains?
Why does it take longer to get around?
Why are commuters forced to take numerous unnecessary transfers to get from north, south, east and west in Queens?
Why don’t we use all our roadways, bridges, tunnels and unused train tracks to reduce travel times?
We the people who organized the Queens Public Transit Committee want faster transportation for your destination, work, home, school, shopping, recreation, etc. If your destination is faster so will our destination be faster.
We know that safe, fast, reliable transportation will help create more social and economic opportunities and a better life for everyone.
It boggles my mind that we do not expand our transit system for ourselves and our children.
A growing economy is the best government program for our City.
The most important correlation to our economy is transportation and education.
We must be able to move freely, quickly and be free to learn and train for our future careers.
Our standard of living is in decline because we have a corrupt government and society that would rather lie to the people and not live by the Truth.
We need to grow and build community support for faster transportation, including the Queens Rockaway Beach Line.
The reactivation of the Queens Rockaway Beach Line (RBL) will expand the NYC transit system, increase social and economic opportunities for all, while increasing property values and tax revenues. It’s good for Queens.
The RBL will decrease pollution, accidents, unemployment, crime and government dependence, reduce present and future overcrowding and unreliable buses, trains and roadways at a much, much greater level than the QueensWay plan.
The QueensWay plan will only benefit a few people and a small area of Queens. It’s the small plan while the transportation plan is the big plan, the most inclusive plan.
Reusing the Queens RBL for transportation is the best plan. It will reunite north and south Queens, decrease travel times and increase investments for everyone especially the poor and middle class areas that are underserved, excluded and separated from the American dream.
The QueensWay plan and the No Way plan are exclusive and divide our borough. It also prevents development and investments in Queens.
The borough of Queens needs jobs
and businesses for all the people so we can grow and help each other.
and businesses for all the people so we can grow and help each other.
The NIMBY plan is called the Do Nothing Plan because it does very little to support Queens and the city.
Please support our cause and our group. We need to educate and organize the people to promote faster transportation and significantly reduce travel times.
Please ask your family and friends and commuters to sign our petitions to support the Reactivation of the Queens Rockaway Beach Line, the New Queens Crosstown, eliminate the toll on the Queens Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge for everyone and expand the Queens Rockaway Ferry:
•change.org/petitions/governor-andrew-m-cuomo-reactivate-the-lirr-rockaway-line-in-central-queens
Philip McManus
Queens Public Transit Committee
718-474-0315
Queens Public Transit Committee
718-474-0315
718-679-5309
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