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It's believed 88,000 people would use this Brooklyn-Queens route each day.

The MTA could add passenger service to these freight rail tracksThe MTA has begun the process of reaching out to New Yorkers to get their feedback on what they’d like to see if the Interborough Express --

along an existing freight line running from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to Jackson Heights, Queens -- moves forward.and hopes to submit the project for an environmental review to federal officials next year. That review would take at least two years to complete, but would move the project one step closer to reality.

“Their destinations are more highly dispersed throughout the boroughs and throughout the region than in just the central business district of Manhattan,” Shiffer said. “So that’s one of the reasons why this looks very promising, even in a post-pandemic world.”, with the agency projecting end-to-end trip times to be 39-45 minutes.

He said that surveys have found that about half the residents in the area near the rail project don’t own cars and that 70% are non-white, which also makes it a project about restoring equity to residents. The agency is still weighing whether the project would use conventional rail, like the Long Island Railroad or Metro-North; light rail, which is what

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