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Posted by J trainloco on Tue May 23 00:31:57 2006, in response to Re: LIRR East Side Access, posted by ALSTOM R160A on Tue May 23 00:20:39 2006. Building more capacity at NYP? How would that be far cheaper?The lack of an expensive tunnel. I thought that was a given. First off, Amtrak owns Penn Station so you can't just build on that. Ugh. Yes, you can. You can get permission to build on Amtrak's property. It is not a law of physics that you can't build on property you do not own. I believe that the Chrysler Building and the land under the Chrysler Building are owned by 2 different entities. That's just one example of building on someone else's property. They could construct a new adjacent station like NJT is doing for ARC, Exactly! and the whole point of ESA is: 1) Add LIRR Capacity in Manhattan Which is done far more cheaply by expanding NYP 2) Bring LIRR passengers directly to the East Side. Why should money be wasted on this? At the same time, trackage exists to do the same for MNRR, thus doing it cheaper and you are against it! There's no reason to spend billions to bring LIRR to the east side if you don't think there's a reason to bring MNRR to NYP for a fraction of the cost. All of this is exacerbated by the fact that now the governor wants to bring LIRR to Lower Manhattan as well. If that does happen, ESA will be the biggest waste of money on a rail transit project we've ever seen. |
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