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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jan 3 20:30:21 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by olivermuc on Sat Jan 3 20:12:39 2009. Folks forget that the IND was essentially built with federal "stimulus money" at a time when NYC had great political power in Washington. Thus, the opportunity to truly "build like a Brit Shickhouse" was there and the engineers took advantage of it. The shortcomings of the IRT and BMT designs as well as the expected expansion after the depression showed itself in planning for tremendous capacity and the financial wherewithall to build it while the opportunity existed.Had WWII not happened, the second system as well as a possible third expansion might have actually happened. And of course, after the war, automobiles became reasonable in price and the expected expansions never occurred. But imagine what the IND would have become were it not for the 1940's and a total change in the culture ... |
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