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Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late? |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 6 08:13:27 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by Russ on Tue Jan 6 07:57:49 2009. At the time, the majority of people looked at rail as old fashioned, and dying, and cars and buses as the wave of the future.This is also when the Railroads, and much public transportation was PRIVATELY held, and were looked at as businesses, not public entities. The Railroads were in a state of chaos falling to bankruptcy. They weren't taken over by the municipalities. Sure you had the city owned IND, but in general, most rail transportation was still in private hands. People looked at them much like today we are looking at the failing car companies, etc (on a somewhat similar term) Again, you are looking at the situation with 20/20 vision, and taking TODAY's attitudes and knowledge on PUBLIC rail transportation, and trying to place that into an era when attitudes and situations on/with rail were quite different, and quite to the contrary. Hindsight is 20/20. |
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