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

LOOKING FOR A QUICKER AND EASIER TRIP INTO MANHATTAN?

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A QUICKER AND EASIER TRIP INTO MANHATTAN?

IF THAT’S WHAT YOU NEED TO IMPROVE YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE,

JOIN OUR QUEENS PUBLIC TRANSIT COMMITTEE!!!

 

The Queens Public Transit Committee is promoting the reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Line (RBL) in Queens as a mass transit option. This means restoring the former Long Island Rail Road right of way in a manner in which it was intended – a transportation mode that will offer a quick and safe trip into central Queens and Manhattan.

 

What restoring rail service to the line will do is to reduce long travel times, dangerous streets and overflowing traffic. Rail service has always resulted in increased economic activity which results in more jobs for everyone. Workers and students will be able to get to their destinations quicker while increasing their quality of life which can translate into more productivity overall. When the LIRR operated trains there, it took a maximum of forty minutes to enter Manhattan compared to at least 2 or 3 times that amount right now. This transportation crosstown corridor was lost to us in 1950 and 1962 when it was shortened, then eliminated.

 

Increased bus service is not the answer as they tend to get stuck in traffic which can result in an inconsistent spacing of buses and long wait lines to get on them.

 

JOIN OUR QUEENS PUBLIC TRANSIT COMMITTEE!

Unite with your fellow commuters and complain about being stuck in your car traffic or in an overcrowded bus.

Don't spectate...participate and do something about it.

The Queens Public Transit Committee is organizing a march and rally for better access to jobs, schools and the entire New York Metropolitan area through the reactivation of the Queens Rockaway Beach Line, subway or LIRR. 

Send this message to Governor Cuomo an e-mail to: press.office@exec.ny.gov

 

FIGHT FOR BETTER ACCESS TO JOBS AND SCHOOLS

WITH FASTER TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS BY

REOPENING THE QUEENS ROCKAWAY BEACH LINE

AS THE NEW QUEENS CROSSTOWN RAIL LINE!!!

 

The Queens RBL is only one to six blocks east, travels north/south and parallel to Woodhaven Boulevard, from Penn Station through Central Queens to South Queens.  

 

For more information, contact Queens Public Transit Committee by visiting this blog for information about fixing this vexing transportation problem: http://rockawaybranchline.blogspot.com/ 

 

Philip McManus, Chairman

Queens Public Transit Committee

Phone: 718-679-5309

E-mail: rowing612@aol.com

Facebook.com/RockawayBeachRailLine

Twitter.com/RBL1910