""Looks like Mayor Mamdani is proposing to keep funding the Queensway's Metro Hub. As designed, this will block future reactivation of the LIRR Rockaway Branch.""
""If any piece of the park gets built, it would add another political and logistical obstacle to the MTA and city reactivating it for mass transit.""
""The right of way could support both transit and parkland - but only if the city built the greenway with both ideas in mind.""
Transit activists in Queens criticize Mayor Mamdani for favoring the Queensway park project over the QueensLink subway extension. The budget allocates over $43 million for the park, which supporters argue will hinder future transit reactivation. Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi claims the park's construction won't block the subway project, but current designs suggest otherwise. QueensLink advocates believe both transit and parkland can coexist if designed collaboratively, emphasizing the need for integrated planning to avoid future conflicts.
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