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Posted by Randyo on Fri Feb 4 15:26:22 2011, in response to Re: 76st what happened?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 4 14:54:08 2011. The reason that they are almost duplicates of the Bway Bkln el stations is because they were rebuilt to dual contract specs at about the same time. I can only speculate as to why the IND was initially ended at Rocky Av instead of continuing farther but I believe it was because at the time the line was built that far, the routing of the remainder of the Fulton St Line had not yet been finalized. One proposal called for it to continue straight out Fulton St under the present J Line structure. Another had the route swinging east under Liberty Av instead of down to Pitkin. Both of these routings included connecting to the Fulton St el at about the present location. Since the original Fulton St El had no station at the Bway Jct complex, once unification had been accomplished, the city routed the next portion of the Fulton St subway slightly north under Truxton Pk so that a station could be built closer to the Bway Jct complex and provide a transfer to the Jamaica and Canarsie lines. All of the other proposed routings called for some portion of the IND to go farther into Eastern Queens and for whatever reason, the Pitkin Av route was chosen with a proposal not only to connect to the outer portion of the Fulton St El but to extend the new subway farther out Pitkin Av to S/E Queens although the plans were shortened to terminate the Pitkin subway at 106 St with a connection from that portion of the line to the LIRR. One of the considerations for using the Fulton St Line to access the Rockaways instead of the Qns Blvd Line as originally envisioned may have been that the postwar population along Qns Blvd had increased to the point that the Qns Blvd Line lacked the capacity for the additional Rockaway service whereas the Fulton St Line was able to handle the additional service. |
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