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Re: 76th St area - Satellite (Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street) |
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Posted by Randyo on Tue Jan 25 17:56:13 2011, in response to Re: 76th St area - Satellite (Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street), posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jan 25 16:52:24 2011. As I mentioned in a few posts there are a couple of reasons why it was never finished. One is that I heard from somewhere which I can't recall that the surveyors encountered problems with the ground in the area that would have caused problems. Another is plain economics. Although in 1948, the continuation of the subway to connect to the LIRR near Aqueduct was in the plans, a 1950 map of new subway lines for NY showed the connection off the Fulton El at what eventually became Liberty Jct. Whatever reason caused the change in plans, it was definitely made by 1950 and may have just been that a ramp down form the el structure was cheaper than building a whole subway infrastructure down Pitkin Av with a portal to the LIRR especially since the city had title to the former LIRR at least as far as Liberty Av anyhow. Although under the subway plan, existing BMT signaling was to be used east of 80/Hudson St interlocking, there would have had to be a new signal tower built for the interlocking connecting a subway to the LIRR anyhow so a connection that was cheaper than a whole section of subway and a new tower having to be built anyhow probably influenced the city to cut its losses and abandon any further extension down Pitkin Ave. Perhaps if the continuation of the Pitkin subway farther into Queens had still been a possibility in 1950, the subway might have been continued but with the state of transit planning being in flux at the time with the not yet built SAS still on the drawing board and the impending Culver and 60 St connections between the IND and the BMT, a new subway closely paralleling the Fulton St el about to be connected to the IND anyhow was probably not very high on the city's list of lines needing to be built. |
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