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Posted by ALSTOM R160A on Tue May 23 00:44:47 2006, in response to Re: LIRR East Side Access, posted by J trainloco on Tue May 23 00:31:57 2006. The lack of an expensive tunnel. I thought that was a given.It isn't a given...the West of Hudson tunnels are at capacity as well! 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. That didn't involve massive delays in train service to unrelated lines that have no financial gain from one another. 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. I'm against it because it doesn't increase capacity of MNRR in Manhattan. ESA increases LIRR capacity without having to modify a station owned by another entity, build a new tunnel to get to those new tracks/adjacent station, and has the added advantage of bringing some LIRR riders to the east side of Manhattan. It's an added advantage...one of its two main purposes, probably the more important one being the added capacity. |
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