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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 4 14:44:15 2011, in response to Re: 76st what happened?, posted by SMAZ on Fri Feb 4 13:18:52 2011. here are the most likely chronology of events surrounding tunnel construction in that area.1. The BOT decides to build a Pitkin subway that extends to at least the Rockaway Line and eventually beyond. 2. BOT draws up plans for that. Yes. 3. BOT starts construction. Construction commenced on the whole line before the war. Broadway East New York was completely finished, tiled and ready to go, however, the station lacked the running rails and the metal for the signaling because the war effort needed metal. Liberty, Van Siclen, Shepherd, Euclid and their tunnels were also all built, and were shell stations. The war halted construction. It's not out of the realm that construction went as far as 76th St in some shape or form. THAT is where the loophole exists for this alleged station to have been built, just how far was it that construction got before the war ended construction. 4. BOT gets as far as just past the big parking lot with construction and encounters expensive hydrological challenges past the dip that slows pace of construction. 5. Since construction stops due to the war, that segment never reaches 76th St. Dirt and other unfinished business remains in the tunnel. We don't know that, that is pure speculation. 6. After the war, BOT realizes that continuing on its original plans is too expensive and decides to link to the Liberty El only. Money ran out after the war and plans changed. Priorities changed. But that still doesn't prove nor disprove that this alleged station was built. Anything we say on it is pure speculation or assumption, not fact. Some of the unfinished tunnel used for storage and other operations till 1952. Yes, that is what is claimed. But we don't know how far the tunnel went, and it's speculation to say how far it went without documentation. It went "some distance", large or small, past the current wall. 7. Water and safety problems plague that tunnel segment. BOT decides to seal and abandon it. To protect the wall from water seepage, dirt is packed just beyond the wall. Water problems is correct, but again, that doesn't determine just how far the tunnel went. We also don't know what was sealed or filled in with dirt, or how much, if that is the case. Again, PURE speculation. 8. The End. Not in the least. While I don't believe there's anything there, there's enough circumstantial evidience here for the claim that something "could" be there. There is no evidence to prove it's there, and since there is circumstantial evidence of the remote possibility, there is no evidence to prove it wasn't built. No conspiracies. No nothing. This post of mine is the closest to explain what actually happened. No, your post is the "closest to explain" what YOU THINK happened. Your opinion is not fact, and has no more baring on the topic than anyone else, as you have nothing but speculation, just as anyone else. |
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