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Re: Re:RE: (erielack) New tunnel
> There are, indeed, long escalators on the NYC subway system. This long?
> I >don't know. However, they are installed to serve individual stations
> to carry
I think the WTC is 6-8 stories, is it not? 1-2 stories from the street, 4-6
stories on "PATH Hill" and another story mezzanine to the platforms. The old
Hudson Tubes Terminal (with its spiral ramps we knew and loved on our way to
Hoboken and Jersey City <g>) was only 3 stories deep.
Banks of escalators will do the trick quite nicely -- as they have done at
WTC for most of the past 35 years. My concern is that if NJT is so
incompetent that they can't make escalators run in the driection of traffic
at Penn Station now, whether we can trust them to not have the escalators
running "DOWN" in the AM rush and "UP" in the PM Rush. But then the simple
fis of running escalators in the right driection in Penn would make room for
more trains all by itself <g>.
In any case, the cost of being closer to the surface would double the cost
of the project. Railfans love to connect the dots and plot rare mileage
excursions (Watchung Avenue to Wassaic or Trenton to Tremont anyone <g>) but
the reality of construction, the geology and NYC politics certainly makes
the current unfortunate result the only tenable one.
I commend to your attention Don Phillips' column in the July Trains Magazine
on the subject.
Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
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