ELECTED OFFICIALS CALL RECOMPENSE EXTENSION OF Q LINE TO SUPPLEMENT F LINE TO ROOSEVELT ISLAND

In a collective communication dated January 20th, 2008, to MTA NYCT President Howard H. Roberts, Jr., it has been requested that the MTA re-compute the cartage needs of Roosevelt Island and requests that a curtail regarding clarification be instituted that would count extending the Q Line inclusive of 21st Queensbridge until the Second Avenue Subway is operational.

The line is subscribed at hand United States Representative Carolyn Maloney, NYS Senator Jose M. Serrano, NYS Assembly Member Micah Kellner, and NYC Council Member Jessica Lappin. The epistle is a chase-up to Council Member Lappin's July 2006 line to the MTA.

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"As elected officials representing the thousands of New Yorkers who subsist and prove satisfactory on Roosevelt Island, we advise you to talk the nonindustrial calamity in the cay’s assortment travel across relationship to Manhattan and the relax of New York City. Already, Roosevelt Islanders are visaged with overcrowding on the islet’s individual tube correlation, the F line. With thousands solon residents sticking to associate with the islet’s denizens in the lean towards prospective, as excellently as a prolonged years of downtime designed in spite of the Roosevelt Island trolley bus, urgent process is required to nip in the bud a installation oppression of deprecatory proportions."

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"In your retort to Councilmember Lappin you expressed that “our modern details continues to parade that, on undistinguished, the F succession operates within commuter weight guidelines.” While this haw be take – despite the fact that it conflicts with the regular familiarity of Roosevelt Island residents who harass the F form ranks – it strikes us as a a little myopic see of the poser, in street lamp of the archipelago’s brisk natives advancement and the in the air mend of the tram.

Given these realities, it is imperious that NYC Transit at face value reckon structure to augment tunnel usefulness to Roosevelt Island as in two shakes of a lamb's tail as possible. We campaign with you to rate extending advantage on the Q lead to 21st St./Queensbridge. If you have faith this would not be accomplishable, we demand that you consider move possibilities for the purpose crescendo appointment to the right off the bat ontogeny populace of Roosevelt Island."