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Re: Archer Avenue Subway - 25th Anniversary |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Dec 11 16:47:23 2013, in response to Archer Avenue Subway - 25th Anniversary, posted by renee gil on Wed Dec 11 01:07:03 2013. Wow, has it really been 25 years? I remember that Sunday well. I rode an R30 into the lower level around 8 AM. Man, was it a cold day. I then poked around Parsons Blvd for a bit. A lot of people coming in on the E were lost.  A lot of other non-Archer Ave subway changes would take effect this Sunday and Monday. The opening of the north side of the Manhattan Bridge, the closing of the south side, the restoration of express service on the Brighton line (suspended for 2.5 years), the expansion of Fulton St A express service beyond rush hour, and the expansion of C service/elimination of the K line (old AA).  The media really sold these changes since that previous Halloween as "the biggest improvement to the subway system in decades" and I think it rivaled Christie St opening as the biggest one time change in services ever.  It's ironic that stations opened in my lifetime look to be in worse shape than those opened half a century before I was born. All 3 stations need radical rehabs, if just to get rid of the awful, dated 1970's design. |
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