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Re: Canarsie Line Relocation Proposal Circa 1968 |
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Posted by BMT Guy on Thu Dec 29 18:30:39 2005, in response to Re: Canarsie Line Relocation Proposal Circa 1968, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Dec 29 11:09:37 2005. The Expressway was planned as a true 'Cross-Brooklyn Expressway', and was even assigned a RTE # 878 (IIRC). It was to run ABOVE the LIRR Bay Ridge branch, from the Verranzano Bridge cutting through Bensonhurst, Midwood, East Flatbush and then (somehow) connecting with the Conduit in East New York. I saw this in a Robert Moses-era document, but there were problems with the plan least of which was the reality that the Bay Ridge branch gets VERY narrow in Midwood where you have very old, Victorian-era private homes and Brooklyn College, which would have proved very difficult obstacles in proving a four-six lane expressway.As for the Canarsie Line: I have a NYC Planning Commission document (circa, 1968) that goes into the details of relocating the Canarsie line onto the Bay Ridge branch SOUTH of Wilson Avenue. Part of the plan called for keeping a 'New Lots Ave to Rockaway Parkway Shuttle' for a while to get Canarsians into realizing that in the near future they were going to have to rely on extended B-42 bus service to get to the train that would make it's closest stop to Canarsie a 1/2 mile north of Rockaway Parkway at Linden and Rockaway Parkway (currently NYCT Linden Yards, Track Fabrication facility). It was a very bold project, with the idea of improving Southern Brooklyn access to Central Queens, via the east-west running Bay Ridge line acting as a link with the north-south configured "traditional BMT" Coney Island-based lines. IIRC, the proposal was to have it terminate at 8th Avenue on the Sea Beach (N) line. Of course there was also talk of extending it a bit further west to intersect with the 4th Avenue (R) line. |
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