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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 6 13:08:42 2009, in response to Re: Why was 179th St/Jamaica 13 years late?, posted by RonInBayside on Tue Jan 6 12:19:30 2009. It's still not zero difference. It's a big difference. Yes, I agree, "nobody gave a crap", but that's the point too, nobody gave a crap about transit either at the time...and again, most rail transit was still in private (and failing) private hands.Taking down an additional 5-10 buildings per block is a HUGE different. Some of them vere 6-8 family homes (and yes, some only 2 or 3 family homes), but on just one block with 6-8 familys, that could be 64 to 80 more families PER BLOCK evicted on some blocks. Or 30 families on blocks with 3 family homes. That's a lot of people,IN ADDITION to the 100's of families per block ALREADY displaced for the main project. So yes, you can make it sound easy, "just throw in a median", but through many sections of the ROW, that means an extra 50-100 feet, and even 50 feet is hard to come by in congested urban areas. |
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