 This proposal was unpopular in the communities surrounding the branch.In 2017, the Department studied a plan to operate light rail service on the Lower Montauk Branch.After Penn Station opened in 1910 the Lower Montauk became the freight route, and when the present Jamaica station opened in 1913 the two Lower Montauk tracks continued past the south side of the station, south of Hall tower and the south Union Hall Street platform and on to Holban Yard.