HELP STOP THE QUEENSWAY PARK ONLY PLAN!!!

HELP STOP THE QUEENSWAY PARK ONLY PLAN!!!

BRING A POSTER SUPPORTING TRANSIT USE FOR THE ROCKAWAY LINE!!!  

STOP THE QUEENSWAY PARK ONLY PLAN!!! THE NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) QUEENSWAY PLAN WILL FURTHER PREVENT FASTER TRANSPORTATION AND PROSPERITY. STOP JUST LIVING WITH OVERCROWDED, DANGEROUS, UNRELIABLE AND SLOW ROADWAYS, BUSES AND TRAINS! 

Join us in our struggle for a better quality of life for you and your children.

WE WANT MORE TRAIN SERVICE!!! MORE TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS MEANS PROSPERITY!!! 

The QueensWay group needs to see us and hear us. Please bring posters and your enthusiasm.  It's also a photo and recruitment opportunity. The press will be in attendance. 

Please ask all rail option supporters to attend and promote reusing the Queens Rockaway Beach Line for transportation at the QueensWay Park meetings. Let's fill the room with supporters of the Queens RBL.  See below meeting locations.

Please contact us at 718-474-0315 or Rowing612@aol.com to confirm your attendance with Queens Public Transit Committee. RSVP QueensWay and speak your mind:

Shelma Jun
QueensWay Plan Engagement Manager
shelma@hesterstreet.org
212.431.6780 x110
www.thequeenswayplan.org

Attend these events!!!

CONVERSATION //
Mon. March 24th, 7 – 9pm
Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School
91-30 Metropolitan Ave. Forest Hills, NY
(two blocks east of Woodhaven Blvd., yellow entrance)

CONVERSATION //
Wed. March 26th, 7 – 9pm 
High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture
94-06 104th Street, Richmond Hill, NY
(one block south of Atlantic Ave. at 94th Ave.)

Each workshop will include:
• Presentation of key issues from community outreach and ideas in progress
• Group activity: review of options going forward

ALSO 

Congratulations to all. Our recent Queens RBL Drive By Rally got into the newspapers.

http://www.qchron.com/editions/south/rail-advocates-stage-rally/article_1e66c9d3-180a-5030-875a-89820370e7f5.html

http://theforumnewsgroup.com/2014/03/13/drive-by-rallies-urge-support-for-reactivating-queens-rail-line/

The Queens Public Transit Committee had a successful Drive By Rally for the Queens Rockaway Beach Line, the new Queens Crosstown: Check out this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKQkHtJhlcY

 

We want to increase our public exposure. We believe in faster transportation for Queens which is the key to our economic recovery, our unity, our renaissance and our quality of life.We need your help to improve our economy, increase access to jobs and better schools through faster transportation which will reduce unemployment, crime and suffering.  It's time to unite Queens with the new Queens Crosstown. 

We need your help to win the Queens Rockaway Beach Line battle.

ALSO

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:

http://www.rockawaybeachrail.com/

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Phillip-Goldfeder/story/45022/

http://www.keeprockawayferry.com

Philip McManus

Queens Public Transit Committee

718-474-0315

718-679-5309

rowing612@aol.com

LIRR Rockaway Branch Line train activity circa 1950

Below is a link to a YouTube video with Long Island Rail Road trains to the Rockaways circa 1950. You will see MP54 commuter cars going over Broad Channel as well as the viaduct as currently constituted. The scene at Rockaway Park can be an interesting juxtaposition versus today's current subway scene.

Feel free to copy the link into your browser, check it out and enjoy!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gX1AtT6jzA&feature=youtu.be

Queens Public Transit Committee Holds -Drive By Rally- To Drum Up Support For Rail Service To Be Restored To The Former LIRR Queens Rockaway Beach Line And Calling It The New Queens Crosstown Route

I am Philip McManus, Chairman of the Queens Public Transit Committee and I’m here to ask for your help to help make a growing economy a part of your mission for the region and to address a huge problem we have in central and southern Queens - a lack of viable transportation options that results in lower economic output for the region. Queens in general, is being strangulated by a lack of transportation options that hurts the entire city. Transportation is the circulatory system of the city that results in overall economic growth.

The solution to this issue is the re-institution of rail service on the former Long Island Railroad Rockaway Branch line with either subway or LIRR commuter service. The right of way already exists so land acquisition isn't really an issue.

The best example of how rail service benefits the area is when the subway opened in 1904. People realized they no longer had to live within walking distance of their jobs in Lower Manhattan and could travel from other points in the city. The economy grew by leaps and bounds and New York City grew to the metropolis it has become. 

 

We advocate making central and southern Queens an economic empowerment zone by making it a destination for people to live in and have the mobility to easily reach jobs in other parts of the region. Returning it to operation will make the area a juggernaut of economic activity as it could become a destination and not just another place on a map that's hard to get in and out of.

We're not advocating just rail service, but increased bus service as well.

 

Come join our 'Drive By Rally' at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and Woodhaven Boulevard on March 9 2014 at 2:30 pm. Bring your car and passengers that can carry placards to hold as we drive by.

 

Help make Queens and economic empowerment zone by joining our rally.