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Posted by Marc A. Rivlin on Wed Aug 28 17:24:06 2013, in response to Re: 50th Street/8th Avenue IND Station, posted by Elkeeper on Wed Aug 28 16:42:54 2013. I agree that it is hard to believe this was done just to thwart the extension, but it obviously was not needed for the lines to connect efficiently. They can hold E trains at 50th for a slot at either upper level track at 42nd rather than holding them downstairs at 42nd waiting for the express or local track to clear south of 42nd. In 1920, the Board of Transportation--Hylan's BoT--tells the Board of Estimate that the Queensboro Line has to shift to 41st Street to allow for a future extension westward and then they design lower 42nd to block it a few years later? That sounds like either odd engineering--they were convinced that a merge north of 42nd from lower 50th would not work--or politics--if the IRT was not the threat, perhaps an end run around the city to get Albany to authorize the PA to build it was. I would want to look at more contemporary articles before I reached a conclusion, and the Times was having "difficulties" with their website when I started the search yesterday.Still, I've seen old articles from the Times and even 19th century articles in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle that sound remarkably similar to transit controversies from the past 60 years. |
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