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Posted by randyo on Wed Jan 11 14:50:16 2012, in response to Re: Abandoned Utica Ave Upper Level (Pix Coming Soon), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Jan 11 14:38:34 2012. That's exactly the point I've been trying to make. If the Pitkin subway were built to the LIRR ROW, it would have connected to the LIRR and the Fulton el would not have. It was only when plans to continue the Pitkin subway were abandoned that the B of T designed and built Liberty Jct. As for the demolition of the Fulton el east of Nostrand, the problem with retaining it was that east of Hinsdale St, the Fulton el was on original structure and could not have supported heavyweight steel cars so the city would either have had to rebuild that portion of the structure the way the rest of it was rebuilt or else ascend to the structure at Nostrand and then go back into a subway near ENY and back onto the Fulton structure at 80 St the way it does now. That would have meant constructing 3 portals with ramps instead of only one as is the present case. I do believe that if the entire Fulton El had been rebuilt from Nostrand all the way out that the city would have utilized it. |
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