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Posted by Wallyhorse on Fri Oct 5 21:38:02 2018, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for October 3, posted by Edwards! on Fri Oct 5 18:03:30 2018. It was bigtory for sure, but it was also the fact the line would have had to eventually undergo a big-time rebuild in order to get it up to today's standards and there simply wasn't the money for it no matter how ambitious the MTA's plans were then as we were about to head into the twin recessions of 1969-'75 that almost bankrupted NYC with years of corruption catching up in the process.In a rebuild, as I've noted before you likely would have had to rebuild at least portions of the line to two levels of single track with one level jutting out at various points to allow for crossovers (most likely with a consolidation of stations since in a rebuild all stations, including Metropolitan Avenue likely would have been rebuilt to handle 600' trains). As also noted, what likely would have happened by now (and what I'd be doing in a rebuild today) would be to have it where after Navy Street, the line would go underground and join the Montague Street line with stops at Jay Street-Metrotech and Court Street before continuing via the tunnel to Whitehall and then continue to Astoria, most likely as a 24/7 (W) train that could replace the (N) as the full-time to Astoria while the (N) joins the (Q) at 96th/2nd. |
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