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Re: 3rd Avenue EL/Culver Shuttle |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Sun May 15 18:51:36 2022, in response to Re: 3rd Avenue EL, posted by William A. Padron on Sun May 15 16:10:12 2022. I was in this case doing a historical perspective on how I think it would have gone, especially since the MTA likely would have for example after 9/11 gotten a ton of money for the specific purpose of rebuilding what almost certainly would have been (in this scenario) the destroyed portion of the Battery Park City branch of the 3rd Avenue EL as well as likely given money to build a new branch to what is now Brookfield Place.As for the idea if the former Culver Shuttle route, I'd simply move the ROW to the street where and if possible and if necessary build such with two levels of single track, doing it where at Ditmas Avenue, a new upper level is built on the northbound side (with a new track added south of Ditmas that breaks off from the current southbound track and goes uphill to this new upper level), using a new bridge just north of the station to go to the main rebuilt line while on the southbound side, the island platform that was there in the shuttle days is brought back, but with the intent that trains continue in both directions to/from Coney Island with that track continuing and connecting south of Ditmas to the main Southbound track. This would be a way to bring Broadway Line service to the Culver line in the form of the (W) running to Coney Island via 4th Avenue, going with the (D) before going to the lower level of 9th Avenue and then going via a rebuilt connection to the Culver Line. |
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