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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Sat Apr 29 00:07:32 2017, in response to Re: East 180th Street (4/10/17), posted by 3-9 on Fri Apr 28 19:24:03 2017. Hello 3-9Yes, you are correct. However, the countless decades of various politicians, boneheads, planners, surveys, hearings, etc etc., and transit related egg-heads had 65 years (SIXTY FIVE !!) to make use of that E.180th to E.174th street ex-NYW&B 4 track segment ! And even the R-o-W southward along the ex-NHRR now AMTRAK R-o-W's westerly abandoned 2-track ex-NYW&B former R-o-W. Long since the City in late 1940 bought the entire mint-condition 4-track Bronx Portion of the then newly closed NYW&B Railway from E. 174th St. NHRR junction to the Bronx-Mt Vernon Border line - up until when it was decided by the City and State management to have the ex-NYW&B 4 track segment below LEBANON Street south to E. 174th St Jct, all demolished and removed in increments between 2005 and 2008 ! The same mentality AND assorted (as labeled above) EARLIER versions of City Politicians and Management individuals who forced the hasty premature demolition of the Manhattan 3rd Ave EL between 8-1-1955 and 2-1956 - with their pre-demolition documented PROMISES to the Manhattan citizens that the new 2nd Ave. Subway construction would start soon (the full money was in hand for its construction) and be completed within a few years, to REPLACE the demolished and removed 3rd Avenue EL Line. Well, as we (and me) who are still alive from back then well know, and as history documents, we now finally have, SIXTY YEARS LATER (a lifetime of waiting) a newly opened - if for solely, a short two track, 3 station 2nd Avenue STUBWAY to E. 96th Street terminal, costing many Billions of today dollars - (including the decades earlier 1970's built and pre-paid for non-revenue-used tunnels extending a few blocks north of there.) So, heh, what else is new in NYC politics and government and funding ? regards - Joe F |
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