|
|
| Re: 3rd Avenue El (557291) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: 3rd Avenue El |
|
|
Posted by trainsarefun on Mon Jan 21 16:20:47 2008, in response to Re: 3rd Avenue El, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Jan 21 15:29:54 2008. Can't go through parks in most other areas with els either.It might depend on the circumstances of the particular route, but it's at least possible in some cases. Meanwhile, in terms of an el over 2nd Av, that's possible under any set of circumstances not involving, say, Romulan cloaking device technology. The difficulty, however, even where it's possible because opposition can be defeated, is that there's not much ridership in parks, so this is a game of picking useful endpoints. So it's arguably possible - although perhaps more likely impossible than not - that maybe a branch could come off from the Queens Blvd local tracks from Forest Hills, into Flushing Meadows Corona Park, go northeast on some minimally intrusive alignment via cut/cover or el toward LGA, with maybe a transfer station located at roughly Corona Yards. That's a project of let's say intermediate to lots of difficulty. But it seems to me that such a project, with good execution, is just barely within the realm of possibility. In the Bronx, maybe a Cross-Bronx Line would be easier executed via parkland. Use TBM methods from Inwood across Fordham Rd and then use cut and cover/el east of Southern Blvd across the park and using the parkway to continue east. Again, this would be very difficult, but not, in all honesty, absolutely impossible. (I concede that if you have buffoons pushing the plan, it's doomed, of course, but like all things, tact is required). They did it on the Van Wyck, and there was no provision there either. True, but the cost goes much higher, though. And compared to an operation like NYCT, JFK AirTrain, while it does its job, is like a fancy model railroad. |
|
(There are no responses to this message.)
|
|