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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 29 23:46:22 2007, in response to Re::: Tracks beyond Euclid Ave, posted by daDouce Man on Thu Mar 29 13:53:02 2007. Yes I did, and it is very logical, too. The loamy sand and soil of Long Island lends itself to tunneling on the cheap and fast. And the concrete was to be mixed from the garnet and lodestone sands of Fire Island specially dredged for this project, giving the walls and platforms a nice reddish-brick tinge and controlling all manner of bacterial and mold growth due to the sand's high salt content. Plans were also afoot to extend the line under Long Island Sound to Southeastern Connecticut or Rhode Island, Nantucket, Cape Cod, and Portland, Maine, before continuing north to Eastern Canada, Nova Scotia, and the rest of the Maritime Provinces, making the line a truly "International Express." While this may seem very far-fetched, remember that in the 1930s, the subway was basically THE mode of transportation in the City and there was still a great deal of pro-subway sentiment. Had the Eastern section and the Queens section been connected and the line to Montauk operated as planned, Mayors and Governors from the cities and states along the proposed route extension would have had enough time to evaluate the positive effect the Montauk Subway Route would have generated for our region, making them amenable to kicking in the untold billions necessary in order to gain a piece of the pie. True, there were the Pennsylvania, Penn Central, New Haven, and other railroads operating at the time more suited to the task of long distance travel, however the subway was very local in scope and was designed for constant stops every 1500 or so feet so as to spur greater development along its right-of-way, which is what the politicians wanted to see. They weren't planning on having someone ride from Wakefield to Halifax on $2.00 as much as taking local residents a few miles out of their center point on a rolling basis, creating a slightly broader catchment area for merchants along the route. Should that route have begun its cross-sound trek today, I am sure Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun would have paid for a spur going straight into their casino floor, thereby amortizing the cost to the government jurisdictions through which the right-of-way would have originally passed. Everybody would have won. But today, it takes a bridge nearly 20 years to be painted. Oh well. Where did I get all of this? Are you actually questioning my facts? Please. |
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