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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jan 25 18:13:42 2011, in response to Re: 76th St area - Satellite (Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street), posted by Randyo on Tue Jan 25 17:56:13 2011. The "illegal contractor" one is one of my favorite conspiracies, particularly in light of the paperwork vanishing the way it did. If it was as a result of "responsible financing" you'd think they would have been trumpeting the documents as some tenable example of "aren't we great?" given the adverse press the city was receiving at the time. :)I've also heard that they hit some pretty serious water like they did down Nostrand, but you'd think that would have been figured out long before any shovels hit it. What they ended up doing makes sense of course, but then again the way the track alignments are down there suggested that if that had been the original plan, they would have been routed differently. And of course the takeover in 1948 probably hadn't been anticipated before construction began, so they could have easily blamed the former IND administration when unification was imminent. That's the angle that amuses me ... how thoroughly deep-sixed the paperwork went. When I was at PSC, had to do some research at state archives for some fiber optic routing, and in the course of that, found some boxes of old subway stuff that I riffled through after I found what I was sent out there to get and of course I went looking for anything I could find on it. There was NOTHING! :) |
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