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Re: Polo grounds shuttle was to be connected to Lenox Line |
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Posted by Michael549 on Wed Oct 17 14:24:08 2012, in response to Re: Polo grounds shuttle was to be connected to Lenox Line, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Oct 17 13:35:48 2012. Unless I'm an very mistaken, I believe that the Eighth Avenue IND subway was built as a way to "kill" the Ninth Avenue and Sixth Avenue elevated lines. Did not the "city" suggest in several ways that there would be no more building or expansions of the IRT lines.The building and opening of those IND lines in the 1930's would suggest that by the late 1950 and early 1960's when there are closures of the Polo Grounds Shuttle - very little else would be built. The city was in the mode of removing transit lines, not adding to them. The building of the transfer station between the #4 and the then CC and D trains (now B and D trains) at Yankee Stadium provided westside Manhattan access to/from the westside of the Bronx, just like the #2 train at 149th Street-Grand Concourse. There's no major reason to HAVE TO connect the #3 train to the #4 between Harlem and the west Bronx. Just my thoughts. Mike |
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