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Re: IND Pitkin Avenue Extension - map |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Jun 19 16:52:31 2012, in response to Re: IND Pitkin Avenue Extension - map, posted by G1Ravage on Mon Jun 18 23:35:45 2012. Most of the sources I have seen seem to indicate that although the subway extension was planned as early as the 1939 date of the map, actual construction did not start until the actual unification in 1940. What is known is that the subway infrastructure and Pitkin Yard were completed prior to US involvement in WWII minus the track, signals and station finishes (except for Bway/ENY). The likely reason for the omission of Bway/ENY from the map is that the city probably had not yet decided on the exact location of the station and/or what it would actually be called as seems to also be the case with 76 (75) St. What is known is that the connection to the eastern portion of the Fulton St el was considered by the time the subway infrastructure was completed to Euclid (or 76 St) since the provision for the connection was built into the actual subway structure itself and the Euclid model board shows both 76 St station and Grant Av station coexisting. The original plans called for the connection to the LIRR ROW to be made via a portal from the subway in the vicinity of Aqueduct and the contract book for the connection to the Fulton el indicates that existing BMT signaling was to be used east of the 80 (Hudson ) St interlocking. A B of T report on proposed new subway lines issued in 1951 indicates that the connection to the LIRR ROW was to be made from the Fulton St El near Rockaway Blvd, a location we now know as Liberty Jct. That would seem to indicate that at some time between 1948 and 1951, something happened which caused the city to stop building the subway down Pitkin Av and rethink its plans for the LIRR connection. What is not known is why the plans were changed. It could have been due to problems encountered in the area which would have made further subway construction either prohibitively expensive or completely impossible or it could have been just a finding that the ramp from the Fulton St El which was eventually built was just significantly less costly to build than the originally planned 4 track subway down Pitkin. |
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