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Posted by Handbrake on Tue May 2 20:26:20 2023, in response to Re: Fulton Street Subway, posted by randyo on Sun Apr 30 05:44:35 2023. As stated, a station at 76th Street is a convenient myth, as is the lost continent of Atlantis (Oceanic divergence of tectonic plates in the mid-Atlantic proves this fantasy).NYC was in no position financially to expand subways after the Second World War. NYC acquired the two private rail transit company's after they were effectively bankrupted by NYC's five cent fare campaign. With exception to the BMT that was able to not be in bankruptcy court as the the IRT in 1940. The unfortunate fact is, NYC viewed transportation from an early 20th century point of view when rail transportation actually did make money. However the port WW2 assension of the automobile, the Master Highway Planner Mosses, as well as the Interstate Highway construction program shifter the United States to a motor vehicle mobile society that bypassed traditional rail transportation modes of travel. Additionally, the lack of investment of new physical plant by private transit company's to their properties became the responsibility of NYC , a less than capable manager of most pay as you go entities. NYC contributed greatly to the transit mess it created, and has been unable to extract itself from the mess it had created. Along with Mismanagement, and institutional corruption it gives the facade of doing something for the commuting public. |
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