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Among the changes slated for the last stop on the No. 1 and 9 lines is a platform extension to accommodate all ten cars of a train. Currently, riders must be in the first five cars to get out at the station, which connects to the Manhattan terminal of the Staten Island Ferry.
1. It's friggin' annoying.
2. That's not the worst of it, when they first built the station, they built the ceiling too low, the trains couldn't get into the station at all.
“It’s a safety hazard. It’s a real bad station,” Jane Vredenburgh, a member of Staten Island Community Board 1, said of the current station.
Tell me about it. There's nowhere near enough exits, even in the new "temporary" station they opened after 9/11. And currently there's only one staircase... can you imagine the crowding there during rush hour? When I was at Stuy, I actually gave up riding the train when going to school, I'd walk instead because the people getting off the train wouldn't use the turnstiles set aside for leaving the station through, they'd use the ones people were trying to get into through. And as soon as the people stopped leaving from one train, the next one would pull in. It was impossible to get into the station!
Manhattan's Community Board 1 has come out against the plan. District Manager Paul Goldstein released a statement saying: “This project has merit, but it should not be paid for out of the funds slated for rebuilding Lower Manhattan. This is not a priority transportation improvement based on feedback from residents and workers Downtown.”
True enough, I suppose, but I don't give a. This should have been done YEARS ago. Who cares where they get the money, the station is a FIRETRAP.
Among the changes slated for the last stop on the No. 1 and 9 lines is a platform extension to accommodate all ten cars of a train. Currently, riders must be in the first five cars to get out at the station, which connects to the Manhattan terminal of the Staten Island Ferry.
1. It's friggin' annoying.
2. That's not the worst of it, when they first built the station, they built the ceiling too low, the trains couldn't get into the station at all.
“It’s a safety hazard. It’s a real bad station,” Jane Vredenburgh, a member of Staten Island Community Board 1, said of the current station.
Tell me about it. There's nowhere near enough exits, even in the new "temporary" station they opened after 9/11. And currently there's only one staircase... can you imagine the crowding there during rush hour? When I was at Stuy, I actually gave up riding the train when going to school, I'd walk instead because the people getting off the train wouldn't use the turnstiles set aside for leaving the station through, they'd use the ones people were trying to get into through. And as soon as the people stopped leaving from one train, the next one would pull in. It was impossible to get into the station!
Manhattan's Community Board 1 has come out against the plan. District Manager Paul Goldstein released a statement saying: “This project has merit, but it should not be paid for out of the funds slated for rebuilding Lower Manhattan. This is not a priority transportation improvement based on feedback from residents and workers Downtown.”
True enough, I suppose, but I don't give a. This should have been done YEARS ago. Who cares where they get the money, the station is a FIRETRAP.
