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Posted by Bill West on Tue May 23 17:25:40 2006, in response to Re: LIRR East Side Access, posted by Broadway Lion on Tue May 23 15:29:09 2006. I checked William D Middleton's "Manhattan Gateway" as I wrote that post. No mention is made of prior franchises for the tunnel project.PRRTHS/Hagley do mention various LIRR franchises for getting a terminal in Manhattan, I am not quickly sure which ones were from the East and which were from the South nor which ones were incorporated but had no permits. LIRR also looked at Jersey City to the Battery to Flatbush. But Hagley does mention that at the time of the LIRR takeover the PRR board did not know that PRR president Cassatt was again wondering about a Manhattan entry solution and we know he hadn't yet found that electrification was going to make a tunnel possible. Cassatt was probably looking in all directions, ruses are mentioned. But even if LIRR had paper for a 33/34th street crossing it would not have been important to the PRR, they could have obtained the necessary approvals for any project worthwhile to them. If anything Cassatt might have wanted to prevent LIRR from building competing tunnels or take over the profits resulting from LIRR getting into a tunnel. PRR had by far the greater financial and political resources. Bill |
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