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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Feb 11 14:04:23 2007, in response to Re: THE ORPHANS OF CHRYSTIE STREET, PART 1 THE RJ, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Feb 11 13:46:55 2007. It would have to be. I knew quite a few people who worked the lower Myrt and they all worried about it. We all know els "shake" but the Myrt CREAKED and shook even when nothing was moving. Just the WIND did the trick. And like I said, all those rivets hadn't been tightened or painted in decades. MANY were MISSING. :(The old Myrt would have fallen down under its own weight in a couple more years - in fact service ended earlier than planned because a truck hit one of the pillars above Bridge/Navy and TA engineers refused to sign off on reopening it for any period of time. It definitely needed to be rebuilt and MTA was unwilling to spend THAT much money to do so. *Damned* shame ... I rode it often and absolutely loved it every bit as much as my own precious Third Avenue El in da Bronx. And for as rickety as that had gotten, it was in FAR better shape than the Myrt when it came crashing down. :( GOD BLESS THE OLD MYRT! |
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