5 Subway Lines New York Hasn't Built But Should

Mayor Bill de Blasio finally upped his transportation rhetoric and proposed an expansion to the New York City subway system—or, at least, a study of one—as part of his ambitious OneNYC plan. At the moment there's no word on how de Blasio can pay for the new project (may we suggest congestion fares?). But in honor of hizzoner's bold move, we've compiled a short list of subway lines we'd love to see in New York, drawing largely from the phenomenal future-transit maps by Andrew Lynch (aka Vanshnookenraggen).

As part of OneNYC, de Blasio has resurrected the idea of a new line down Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. The project itself has been around the block; it's been hyped in the headlines as far back as 1910. Joseph Raskin, who wrote a book about unbuilt subway lines, told the Times that Utica has always seemed like "one of the lines that should have been built all along." Lynch's proposal of having the trains run along the roofs of commercial buildings in the corridor seems highly unlikely, but the prospect of capturing funding via real estate development along Utica is a promising one.