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Why Not 4 Tracks on 42nd St. Shuttle? |
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Posted by nh153 on Sun Jan 22 20:48:39 2017 I've read that the 42nd Street Shuttle is part of the city's first successful subway line. It originally went from Lower Manhattan, up today's Lexington Avenue Line to 42nd Street, then crosstown to Times Square, then up the Seventh Avenue Line to the Upper East Side.The 42nd Street Shuttle is only two tracks. Obviously it only needs two tracks as a shuttle. But what happened to the other tracks? The original subway had both local and express tracks. (And what foresight for the early founders to spend extra money for a four-track line, something that wasn't spent on the new Second Avenue Line. It is doomed forever to be Manhattan's only two-track North-South line.) Also I notice on the Lex line, at 34 St., the express tracks dip down below the local tracks going north. Then at 42 St., the express come back up to the same level as the local tracks. Is that related to the original tracks turning west at 42 St.? |
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