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Posted by WillD on Mon Sep 4 20:06:23 2006, in response to Re: Jamaica Av EL Track Question, posted by Edwards! on Mon Sep 4 14:10:43 2006. What is needed is a TOTAL REBUILD... Reduce the Els footprint...to a T TYPE STRUCTURE..Run the line down Jamaica Avenue.Ask West Philadelphia residents just how well that's working out for them. If you're going to completely rebuild the elevated then you might as well underpin the el and do a cut and cover subway. For all the disturbance to both customers and lineside businesses as well as cost overruns SEPTA could have had a Subway to replace the elevated from 40th to Millbourne along Market. Philadelphia is just realizing the mistake of rebuilding the el now, and there's no need for NYC to repeat that mistake. Hell, build a 4 track subway under Broadway from Marcy to Bway Jct and then build another 3 or 4 track subway north on Jamaica Ave from there. Track connections would be needed at Bway Jct and Myrtle Ave, and at the former a connection to the Fulton Ave subway could be included. On the western end of the line, so long as this is to be a complete pipedream, the Houston St tube could be built to accomodate a Fulton St Subway route which bypasses downtown Brooklyn, and which allows all four tracks of the Broadway Subway to work at capacity without the bottleneck the Williamsburg bridge would inevitably create. |
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