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Posted by trainsarefun on Wed Jan 30 11:22:40 2008, in response to Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub, posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jan 30 09:42:11 2008. The need for large convention centers is problematic in the Internet age. Plans for an enlarged Javits Center have been cut back and room for subsequent expansion will be eliminated.With this, I agree. Even the expanded Javits Center, most convention experts seem to have said, wouldn't have significantly improved NYC's chances of landing conventions. It's too bad that Spitzer waited a year to make his announcement. Rail access to Javits could have been accomplished with an LIRR shuttle to a station in the West Side yards. The cost would have been much less than $100 million, as compared to the $2 billion plus for the #7 extension. I would also be inclined to agree with you on this count as well IF rail access to the Javits Center alone were to my mind the primary goal of the extension. Now, on paper, the extension to Javits is, in fact, the primary stated purpose, but in reality, especially with the radically scaled back plans - I should add that I agree with the scaling back move, which should have come even sooner than now - the real goal of the Flushing Line extension should in fact be to afford rail access to the developing area over the extension route. Then the question becomes one of: is that territory the most prudent in which to stage development? This is where the claims get more cloudy, but by this point, with expenditures already made, it seems at least prudent to complete extension to the first of the two proposed stations. At earlier points in time, with more alternatives available, perhaps the Javits extension should have been given a lower priority; or not. By now, though, only the question of what should be done now has real import. |
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