Adding passenger trains to freight lines will create a wormhole from Bay Ridge to Jackson Heights that will turn a 70-minute commute into a 40-minute one
The Interborough Express would put passenger trains on 14 miles of underutilized freight lines in Brooklyn and Queens. Photo: Jim Henderson via Wikimedia Commons “Today, I’m announcing a bold idea: Take an old unused, 14-mile-long right-of-way and create what we’re calling the Interborough Express, a new rail service that will connect Brooklyn and Queens,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in her State of the State address this week.
The beauty of the Interborough Express itself is that it fills in a bunch of gaps. The old rail lines in question — Long Island Rail Road tracks in Brooklyn, CSX tracks in Queens — are now used for freight a few times per day. Adding passenger trains will create a wormhole from Bay Ridge to Jackson Heights that will turn a 70-minute commute into a 40-minute one. It will supersede awkward bus connections or looping into Manhattan to change trains.
The proposal is likely to reignite an overdue conversation about how to best reactivate rail rights-of-way. As the “rails to trails” movement swelled during the ’80s and ’90s, cities and states mostly converted these abandoned railways into walking and biking routes, like New York’s recently completed Empire Trail and other major trail systems in cities including Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas.
Hochul’s plan still has a lot of challenges to confront. Nearly 1 million residents call the area around the proposed Interborough Express home, the majority of whom live in communities of color with very low rates of car ownership. As the line is built out and begins to attract residential development, special attention will need to be paid to ensure that these residents don’t get pushed out.
The IBE is exciting at this exact moment because it shows how a governor can champion a major urban transportation project that’s guaranteed to shift a large number of car trips to transit trips. It’s a much better investment than, say, widening highways. If every state leader threw their weight behind improving transit commutes in the centers of their most densely populated cities, the climate, congestion, and economic benefits for the country would be enormous.
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