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Re: [PHOTOS:] PITKIN AVE-- PROFF?? (Was - Re: Fulton Street Subway) |
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Posted by Handbrake on Mon May 8 15:21:42 2023, in response to Re: [PHOTOS:] PITKIN AVE-- PROFF?? (Was - Re: Fulton Street Subway), posted by AlM on Mon May 8 14:29:07 2023. As in the past, all references to an eyewitness have been through third parties, and conjecture.Anyone familiar with subway tunnel civil construction recognizes that with any tunnel structure, there are air vents, and access hatches to permit structural inspections. To include disconnected tunnel sections. Just follow the sidewalk vents along Pitkin Avenue until they end adjacent to the municipal parking lot next to the Grant Avenue station where Pitkin Avenue drops one/two blocks further east past a Public School building in Queens. The unbuilt sections of the 1973 Second Avenue Tunnels had/have emergency access, and ventilation ducts. The unbuilt SAS sections were equipped with tunnel lighting, and emergency telephones. NYCT EMD Telephone Maintainers conduct routine inspection tests of these telephone as its performed on main line telephone and EA boxes. The above is a first hand account of conversations I have had with Telephone Maintainers on A&P access duty in Communication Rooms that I inspected during contract work. I have been over the system on foot, and having walked to the end of the Fulton line subway tunnel past the last Emergency Exit, nothing will greet the observer but a smooth and not so dirty concrete wall. All other observation conveyed by third parties that have been quoted are strictly hearsay. There is no 76th Street tunnel/station, but makes good conversation. Case closed. |
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