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Posted by Michael549 on Sat Feb 18 23:01:38 2017, in response to Re: SAS Use This Week, posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Sat Feb 18 22:23:24 2017. Subway basics - the biggest building period for the subways was generally starts 1900 to the 1940's. Basically whatever was not built in that period of time was either not going to be built or would take a very, very long time.This does not include consolidations, conversions, mergers, the usage of previously built but not completed sections or the elimination of the purely elevated trackage in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Jump to the mid-1960's with additions to the Sixth Avenue line, the Chrystie Street project, conversions to the Manhattan Bridge, and the plans for the Second Avenue subway. The Second Avenue Subway project is "big" with its related Queens Super-Express plans and extensions to southeastern Queens, new subway tunnel to Manhattan, and possible extension to the Bronx. That is until the mid-1970's fiscal crisis, and the major problems with the subways of that era. Leaving bits and pieces of the whole project, a one time "tunnel to nowhere", and the Archer Avenue segment that was to extend further into southern-eastern Queens. Within the 2000's - three major BRAND NEW SUBWAY ADDITIONS: the extension of the #7 train to Hudson Yards & the Jacob Javits Center; the building of the new #1 South Ferry Terminal Station & Plaza (along with a new Ferry Terminal building); and three BRAND NEW SUBWAY STATIONS UNDER SECOND AVENUE, and the renovated completion of a fourth station. Second Avenue has not had a working subway line "under it" or "over" since the 1940's! So yes, it is a big deal. Add in the brand new "East-Side Access" project still under construction - all new trackage. So yes, it is a big deal. Mike |
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