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Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub |
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Posted by Newkirk Plaza David on Tue Jan 29 12:17:48 2008, in response to Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub, posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Mon Jan 28 22:53:48 2008. Yes you are wrong, very wrong.The purpose and intent of FTC should have been a simplified process to transferring between nine subway lines plus a new Dey Street passage to PATH, the R/W and E lines. More importantly, the sooner the twisted ramps and stairs to the A/C platform are eliminated in favor of a single and wider passageway, the better. (as many of us besides you and Ron advocated for) The passageway would connect the 4/5 with the J/M/Z (via staircases), and 2/3 lines, plus the staircases needed to access the A/C platform downstairs, is much better than finding yourself along the A/C platform because you came from the Uptown J/M/Z platform and need to get to the 2/3. Or you might be on the 4/5 and there was a problem and you want to catch the Bay Parkway-bound M instead (both instances require the use of the A/C platform). The $800 million glass egg is a total waste of FEMA, and Federal money earmarked (of which only half was allocated by the MTA, hence the monopolistic bid price and cost overruns.). The 2 years spend on this misguided project could have been spent working on the transfer passages, maybe build another transfer passage underneath John Street (one block south of Fulton), even it if meant eliminating the P/T fare control on the 4/5 Uptown side. The place is now a wreck, and I am itching to bring my camera with me tomorrow to take some pictures of this newly minted "mini-pit" at Fulton and Broadway, just to magnify the real tragedy this has happened in rebuilding Lower Manhattan. Businesses lost, tax revenue is now lost, pedestrian traffic is impossible to navigate through the "temporary" sidewalks, adjoining businesses are losing customers, and the prospect of any good n'oreaster will easily flood the 4/5 platform if the "levees" broke, LOL. |
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