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Re: Gold Line to Santa Monica? (was:Re: Expo construction pics) |
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Posted by Eric B on Wed May 7 09:49:26 2008, in response to Re: Gold Line to Santa Monica? (was:Re: Expo construction pics), posted by Easy on Mon May 5 10:15:02 2008. Those alternatives are right by where the line passes over the old PE Subway. I still wonder with all of this why no one ever thinks of using that, or at least part of it. (If it was severed between Flower and the freeway, then since the line runs down Flower, it could connect to the tunnel to the east to the old terminal, in the basement of a building converted to condos (the space is probably not used by the new development).Now, this site: (Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California) does not even mention the any building foundations being built in the space of the tunnel, but instead says that it was simply it was filled in, due, to a claim by the city that it was "unsafe" due to "incompatibility" with the Bunker Hill redevelopment project because "the tunnel lacked reinforcing steel, hence nothing could be built above it". (While, "As a matter of fact, the Harbor Freeway, a defence system highway, was constructed directly over the tunnel in 1947, after U.S. Army and state engineers had determined that the subway was so strong that no bridge structures or caissons would be required". This would seem to suggest that the construction was actually above the tunnel, and there should be no impediment to removing the fill-in. (Perhaps reinforce it to satisfy the city's concerns). |
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