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Re: (R) Extension Idea (was: Yet another thread rehashing tired service change ideas) |
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Posted by WillD on Tue Jan 22 15:50:14 2008, in response to Re: (R) Extension Idea, posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Tue Jan 22 15:34:42 2008. If you're going to do a tunnel you're not going to want to build around the VZ's anchorages and piers. A better route would be to pass a bit to the north of the bridge and intercept the SIR ROW around Tompkins Ave or a bit west of there. I don't know if you intend to rebuild the SI Expressway HOV lanes for heavy rail, but there should be sufficient room to create a junction between the SIR and R train there. That provides the maximum amount of route flexibility, allowing trains to run from Tottenville, Arlington, or perhaps even St George through the tunnel to NY.Unfortunately it seems while NJT would probably be happy to provide an HBLRT branch to NY provided NY paid for it aligning the three agencies would take an almost herculean effort on the part of SI's elected officials. Chances are considering that the Island accounts for a vast minority of NYC's residents and Bloomberg's relative indifference to those residents (at least compared to Giuliani's pandering) a very large, expensive project like a Narrows Tunnel are unlikely to happen anytime in the next 20 years. It may be worthwhile for SI's elected officials to look into getting the MTA to build them LRT which just happens to be compatible with HBLRT and then use that as leverage to bring the Port Authority and NJT into line. |
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