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Posted by randyo on Mon Nov 24 13:45:46 2014, in response to Re: 76st., posted by renee gil on Sun Nov 23 23:48:19 2014. Your theory makes sense except for one thing. Since the subway infrastructure along Fulton St id 4 tracks (or more) wide for its entire length it wouldn’t really have made sense to have the tunnel envelope narrow to 2 tracks wide just in the station area and fan back to 4 tracks wide after the station. The reason the upper level exp platforms are double width is so that the stairways to the local platforms would be exactly over them instead of like Bergen St where the staircases are in the walls. In an old NY Div ERA Bulletin there was an article about the construction of the bMT Centre ST Subway which indicated that one of the express stations on that line (I don’t recall which) was to have been built like Nostrand Av and this was long before the IND was even planned so apparently there was a reason why that configuration was planned and in the case of the IND adopted. |
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