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Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Thu Feb 6 15:10:34 2020, in response to Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Feb 6 13:12:58 2020. The point is that hardly anything can be built these days because there are always NIMBY laws/complaints or agency bureaucracy.How many bridges would NYC have today if today's laws existed when back then? "Sorry, you can't build the Brooklyn Bridge because its going to affect the marine life of the East River. Also, we have to do an EPA study on the horse poop the traffic will generate" "Sorry, cant't build the Manhattan Bridge, because it casts a shadow on the riverbed, and the fish won't like that" As for something relevant for today, they can't extend the Astoria line into an industrial zone for an extension to Laguardia. Because of 2 blocks of NIMBY. We've all seen the Flushing line when it was first built. Imagine it being blocked because it was "out of character" for the neighborhoods it went though. |
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