Re: (erielack) New tunnel

[Bill Herkner <gwherk_@_earthlink.net>]

On 6/9/09 7:53 AM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com> wrote:

>> 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
> ELHS #1296
> 
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I think Philips says it's a bad project but build it anyway.
    Bill H


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