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Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Jan 5 07:55:19 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Jan 4 18:30:42 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-dependentThe old Central Branch went right through what is now Levittown. Isn't the two track line through Levittown the old Central Branch? The old Central Branch was still there when Levittown was built. In fact, a lot of the homes materials were brought in through the railroad on the Central Branch. I don't know if it was Moses that "made" the LIRR abandon the Central Branch, but I don't believe it was. 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. Where would the approaches for such a railroad have been in Brooklyn? Considering the height of that bridge, you would have had either a SEVERE grade to get onto that bride, or the ramp approaches would have been half way through Brooklyn. I thought it was the height of that bridge that was a factor two in no RR on it. |
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