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Re: (erielack) New tunnel
Ground was broken today, and it is a good thing that the new rail tunnel is being built.
You can bet that the new services on NJT will just about coincide with its opening, including passenger service from Pennsylvania via the Lackawanna Cut-Off and the NYS&W service, and others.
????????????????????????? ....Mike
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From: Janet & Randy Brown <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
Sent: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 6:01 pm
Subject: (erielack) New tunnel
The New Yotrk Times reported today that ground would be broken on Monday (today?
Or next week?) for the new Mass Transit Tunnel into Manhattan. (Apparently,
it's no longer THE Tunnel; just another one)
They reported the plan for a new station in Manhattan 18 stories down in the
bedrock.
The article touts the project as a boon to commuters and the environment through
the diversion of auto traffic to rail and glances at the political
considerations of a New Jersey agency building a project in New York and the
lack of connections to either Pensylvania Station or Grand Central Terminal.
However, it makes no mention of how the new system will carry thousands of
commuters per hour to the surface. How will they do it? An escalator as long
as a football field? Several boxcar-sized elevators?
The article did mention one criticism: the difficulty of evacuation in an
emergency.
Well, time and money will tell -- eight years and $8+billion.
Randy Brown
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