No 7 Secaucus Extension Final Report - NYCEDC

No. 7 Secaucus ExtensionFeasibility Analysis Final Report3 STATIONSNew York-Existing StationsThe No. 7 Secaucus Extension would result in increased passenger volumes at each of the threeexisting No. 7 stations in Manhattan: Times Square, 5 th Avenue/Bryant Park, and Grand Central.Working together, NYCT Operations Planning staff and the project team projected the increasedvolumes at each station and developed conceptual improvement measures.NJ TRANSIT analyzed three scenarios using their forecasting model, which includes trans-Hudsontravel:Existing conditionFuture 2035 No-Build, which included the No. 7 Extension to West 34 th Street and 11 th Avenueas well as committed real estate development projects and projected growth, and does notinclude the deferred No. 7 10 th Avenue Station or the existing station improvementsFuture 2035 Build with the No. 7 Secaucus ExtensionNYCT conducted passenger flows counts on key vertical circulation elements (VCEs) at the threestations in March 2011. NYCT developed future No-Build volumes, based on the growthprojected in the Hudson Yards EIS, but adjusting for the fact that there would not be a 10 thAvenue station. Build volumes on key station elements were developed by using incrementalvolumes from the NJ TRANSIT model between the No-Build and Build scenarios.Specific improvements to accommodate No-Build volume increases were first developed basedon the incremental volumes for each existing station. Additional improvement measures werethen developed to accommodate passenger volumes associated with the No. 7 SecaucusExtension. The improvements and VCE analyses are addressed in detail below, and Tables 1 and2 provide a summary of the proposed improvement measures in the No-Build and with the No. 7Secaucus Extension.11