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Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Jan 4 18:30:42 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jan 4 06:06:31 2009. Interestingly, the LIRR proposed building a two-track line which would have stopped in Levittown, but it never happened. Now Levittown is almost totally car-dependent, LI Bus lines on Wantagh Avenue and Hempstead Turnpike notwithstanding...Moses was ALSO the reason Staten Island still has no rail connection with the other boroughs. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was supposed to carry cars on the upper deck, and TRAINS on the lower. Moses put the kibosh on that one, as well as a proposed extension of the IRT down Nostrand Avenue in the fifties... |
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