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Posted by randyo on Mon Feb 4 23:50:29 2019, in response to Re: Park Avenue (Brooklyn), posted by Elkeeper on Mon Feb 4 20:19:54 2019. I guess nobody at the B of T had the intestinal fortitude to tell the local politicos that the reason for the el was the high water table in the Marine Park/Mill Basin area which would have mede a subway either prohibitively expensive or outright impossible. That was supposedly why the Pitkin Av subway was not extended past (dare I mention it)76 St. The Ozone Park area through which the subway was supposed to go has part of the same high water table that affects the Marine Pk area so water seepage problems were encountered precluding further construction. These days, the state of the art may have advanced to the point that should a Utica Av subway be built it can probably be entirely underground. Of course if the B of T had a character like Robert Moses who would have done for subways what Moses did for highways, the line would have been built in its entirety. |
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