they ran local up in astoria up until last week - only then did they start running express. they can't make up their minds if it's suppose to be express or local. express seems decent for the ditmars crowd in the mornings, but the pm rush, the w always gets stabbed at 25th av waiting at least 5 minutes for a track to open at ditmars - usually the next local n will have arrived at this point... there's little point for the express, so long as ditmars is a bottleneck. i wouldn't be surprised if they keep switching it from local to express for a long, long time.