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Posted by Handbrake on Sat Aug 24 21:55:26 2013, in response to Re: Essex- Before the IND, posted by tunnelrat on Sat Aug 24 21:42:58 2013. Hyland had personal issues, based on what was know about the personality in question. The bottom line is that city called the shots on tunnel digging. The IRT was in no way in a position to pay for subway construction out of its own pockets. I believe the IRT Company was about to go into receivership by about the time the city operated subway was being built.OSHA or no OSHA, it was till not cheap to dig a tunnel, let alone equip it to run an underground electric railroad. Why NYC did not extend the Flushing line further west to develop that area of Manhattan is unknown. Property development was cheaper in the outlying Boroughs Redevelopment of the West Side is a more modern phenomena. In the ensuing years, the automobile won out. |
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