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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Feb 15 16:44:50 2012, in response to Re: Underbuilt IND?, posted by Elkeeper on Wed Feb 15 15:29:36 2012. Saying that an area didn't get more subway service because it wasn't developed sufficiently makes no sense. Before 1940, subways were the very tool used to encourage commercial and residential development. By giving Queens fewer subways, they guaranteed that Queens would remain undeveloped.For example, upper Manhattan was largely undeveloped at the turn of the century and the original IRT was intended to open up outlying regions of Manhattan to residential and commercial development. The IRT was very successful in this regard. The IRT Brooklyn line and the BRT/BMT Dual Contracts lines did the same for the outlying regions of Brooklyn and the IRT Dual Contracts lines did the same for the Bronx. There are so many pictures of Dual Contracts elevated lines being built in wide open fields of grass and flowers. But if the populations of these outlying areas were taken in consideration when the lines were built, then the lines would not have been built, or least not as extensively. The truth is, Queens got screwed during the subway construction boom that took place between 1915 and 1940. While other boros (except Staten Island) either received extensions of existing subways or elevated lines or new lines, Queens only got the IRT Corona line, the IND Queens Boulevard lines and an extension of the BRT line to 168th Street in Jamaica. Everything east of 179th Street was ignored. |
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