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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 19h

Austin Street loves QueensLink! 💕 We recently tabled at the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce Street Fair and met lots of enthusiastic residents! Let's #BuildtheQueensLink !!

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 5d

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 5d

Swipe to the end to see what this means for QueensLink! While the F M swap may be a bit confusing, it will only make QueensLink service more frequent, faster, and more reliable 🚉🌳 Let's tell our leaders to #BuildtheQueensLink !!

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 7d

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Help Stop QueensWay | Contact Your Leaders – QueensLink

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 7d

👻 Don't swipe if you don't want a jumpscare 🫣 Spooky season is here, but what's even scarier? QueensWay blocking transit FOREVER!! Tap the 🔗 in byo to tell our leaders to #BuildtheQueensLink !!

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 9d

✨ Excitement is in the air! ✨ This weekend, we tabled at the Richmond Hill Block Association Street Fair and met tons of enthusiastic residents! Let's #BuildtheQueensLink to give these neighborhoods #BetterTransit AND #BetterParks !! 🚉🌳

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 12d

🎉 We're moving full speed ahead with our economic study, and we've selected @steergroup.bsky.social to lead this pivotal report!! 🚉🌳 Steer has incredible expertise in the mass transit world and has produced countless other business case studies across North America! #BuildtheQueensLink

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 20d

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Help Stop QueensWay | Contact Your Leaders – QueensLink

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 20d

🍂 Thank you to everyone who visited us at the Austin Street Open Streets on Sunday with @asaferaustinstqns ! We loved talking with supporters to show that Queens needs BOTH #railsANDtrails !! Don't forget to visit the 🔗 in bio to tell local leaders to #BuildtheQueensLink 🚉🌳

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 28

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Help Stop QueensWay | Contact Your Leaders – QueensLink

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 28

QueensWay and the Trust for Public Land know this and are trying to prove to elected officials that their anti-transit scheme is what residents want. We CAN'T let that happen. Visit the 🔗 in bio to tell leaders that we need QueensLink NOW!

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 28

What happens when you build the trails before the rails? You get Atlanta's Beltline, a project which after two decades has still not added the rail.

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 25

The future of Queens shouldn’t cater to a select few. Communities should decide how we forge a better borough.

Use our letter writing tool below to tell local elected leaders that Queens doesn’t want an anti-transit scheme. We need QueensLink NOW!

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 19

QueensLink beach day! 🌊🏖️ We had a blast talking to Rockaway residents about #RailsandTrails 🚉🌳 QueensLink would save about 40 mins round trip, bringing fast and equitable transit coverage to the city's best beaches! #transitequity

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 11

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 11

Join us in the fight for #railsandtrails! Lets #buildtheQueensLink!

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 11

What is QueensLink? We’re a group of grassroots activists seeking to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in the borough of Queens by reactivating the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch. You can learn more about us on our website, queenslink.org.

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Aug 5

There’s been some chatter about the anti-transit scheme and whether or not they lost funding. Here’s what’s going on.

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Jul 23

In 1973, most E service was cut back except for a few rush hour trains to Rockaway Park. Just three years later it was cut back again to World Trade Center all times, where it has remained since.
#buildtheQueensLink

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Jul 23

That’s right. For nearly 20 years there was a one seat ride from Queens to Queens. The journey time from Far Rockaway to Jackson Heights? About an hour and a half.

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Jul 21

Thanks YPT NYC for joining us on a walking tour of the QueensLink right-of-way!! 🌳🚉 It was an amazing opportunity to showcase how community-oriented urban planning and transit solutions can help bring access and equity for Queens residents! Let's #BuildtheQueensLink

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Jul 17

You can read the student-led report here:
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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Jul 17

Yesterday, @nypirg.bsky.social students at Queens College joined community advocates to call on the city’s leaders and the MTA to advance the QueensLink project. The rally highlighted the release of a student-led report and over 1,500 petition signatures from students to the NYC Mayor.

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · Jul 15

As a new subway only needs two of the four tracks, rebuilding the viaduct at a similar dimension allows a proposed elevated linear park to run alongside the new line. This concept has the added benefit of commercial space remaining!

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