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From: <NYCTransitMan@aol.com> To: <geohaikalis@juno.com> Subject: Prior RTC meeting summary & Next Rockaway Transit Coalition meeting Date: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:49 AM Dear friends of better transit: The meeting of the reorganized Rockaway Transit Coalition and the Regional Rail Working Group Rockaway Subcommittee held on Monday, September 29, 2003, was attended by twelve people including myself, my wife, Albert Papp of ESPA, CBT & NJARP and Coco Gordon of TIKYSK & CBT. Other attendees were Dorothy Williams-Pereira of the CAT, Lenora Lavan of Queens Community Board (QCB) #9 and who is also President of the Woodhaven Historical Society, Angela Maloney of QCB #9, James Trent of the Queens Civic Congress, Herbert J. Gormley of the Belle Harbor Property Owners, Robert Toth of CBT and who is also a Woodhaven resident, Thomas Dennehy of CBT and who is also a South Richmond Hill resident, John Fazio of QCB #10 and Norman Silverman of the Bayswater Civic Association. At this meeting myself and Albert Papp first described the Penn Station Metro Hub Plan to the audience as well as the incorporation of the Apple Corridor Plan (reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Line) which would provide one seat rail service between JFK Airport and Penn Station via the Rockaway Cutoff into the LIRR Main Line at Whitepot Junction. Coco Gordon gave an excellent presentation on how permaculture could help beautify the line as well as provide many natural resources and natural energy concepts that will enhance the neighborhood and provide the residents many benefits and would have those neighbors along the Rockaway embankment utilize these permaculture concepts to create and protect their own environment. Later that evening the group discussed renaming the group as one proposal that is still being considered is "Queens Transit Alternatives." This name change will be discussed again at the next meeting. The next meeting of this group will be held on Monday, October 27, 2003, at 7:30PM. The location of the meeting will be at the Emanuel United Church of Christ located at 93-12 91st Avenue which is at the corner of Woodhaven Blvd. in Woodhaven, Queens New York. Please note the entrance to the church hall is located along 91st Avenue approximately 100 feet east of Woodhaven Blvd. Please do not use any of the other entrances to the church or other adjoining buildings located along Woodhaven Blvd. At this next meeting we'll discuss a transportation study that was prepared in May 1992 called> "Reducing Subway Overcrowding at the Manhattan CBD Cordons - Vol. 1: The Queens Cordon" and can be accessed at the following website address: http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/planning/queen/queen.html This study contains many useful alternatives for the LIRR Rockaway Beach Line and the LIRR Port Washington Branch so it will be useful to review this study before coming to the meeting. A short summary on this former proposal will be discussed at the meeting and how it can be revised to fit into any future proposals our group can come up with. Since this study has about sixty-three pages and thirty-five diagrams associated with it I won't be handing out full copies to the audience but only a couple of pages with the main points. If anyone is interested they can a print a full copy and bring it to the meeting and/or make additional copies for the group if they have the capabilities to do this inexpensively. Hopefully at another future meeting, I'll try to contact someone from the Regional Plan Association to give a presentation on the Airtrain / MetroLink Plan which would also improve rail service between JFK Airport, Jamaica, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Sincerely, Carl Perrera - NYCTransitMan@aol.com Rockaway Transit Coalition & Regional Rail Working Group Rockaway Subcommittee Coordinator Directions to meeting: "A" Subway Line to the Rockaway Blvd. Station. Get out at the Cross Bay Blvd. / Liberty Avenue exit located in the rear two subway cars on Far Rockaway / Lefferts Blvd. bound "A" trains and the first two cars on Manhattan bound "A" trains. Walk across Woodhaven Blvd. to the opposite side of Woodhaven Blvd. near the OTB. Transfer to a northbound Q-11 bus and get off at 91st Avenue / Woodhaven Blvd. stop (one block north of Atlantic Avenue). Walk approximately 100 feet east along 91st Avenue to locate the entrance to the church hall. "J" Subway Line to the Woodhaven Blvd. Station. Get out at the Woodhaven Blvd. / Jamaica Avenue exit. Transfer to a southbound Q-11 bus at Woodhaven Blvd. and get off at 91st Avenue / Woodhaven Blvd. stop. (about only two stops). Walk across to the opposite side of Woodhaven Blvd. to the church then walk approximately 100 feet east along 91st Avenue to locate the entrance to the church hall. "N or R" Subway Line to the Woodhaven Blvd. Station. Get out at the Woodhaven Blvd. / Queens Blvd. exit of that station and turn to your left at the token booth. Then walk along a long corridor to the further (second) exit which would let you out at Queens Blvd. / Woodhaven Blvd. (Do not turn left to this first exit in that corridor since that would place you on the North side of Woodhaven Blvd. rather than the South side of Woodhaven Blvd.) Walk a short distance across a small street (Hoffman Drive). Transfer to a southbound Q-11 bus at Woodhaven Blvd. and get off at 91st Avenue / Woodhaven Blvd. stop. (about only two miles or two stops after you see the Jamaica Avenue Elevated Line). Walk across to the opposite side of Woodhaven Blvd. to the church then walk approximately 100 feet east along 91st Avenue to locate the entrance to the church hall. If you need travel directions by car send me an email at Carl Perrera - NYCTransitMan@aol.com. * For more information about the Regional Rail Working Group check |