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Re: Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub |
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Posted by WillD on Thu Jan 31 15:42:53 2008, in response to Budget Concerns Threaten To Derail Fulton Transit Hub, posted by Russ on Mon Jan 28 20:24:18 2008. Perhaps the most intriguing thing to come out of this is that it basically amounts to the MTA's tacit admission that the Fulton Transit Center is a make-work project only there to consume federal money earmarked for Lower Manhattan. They couldn't come up with anything truely useful for it (such as the SAS, 7 train extension, or ESA), and something like building the Water Street alignment of the SAS now would take too long and potentially be underutilized until the rest of the route were finished (see the U55 in Berlin).The FTC project undoubtedly was the "least worst" choice the Capital Construction folks could choose, since it provided ADA compatibility to a large station complex using Federal while giving Kalikow's considerable ego a boost with the stationhouse to rival the PANJNY's structure at the WTC. But the ONLY important part of the project is the addition of ADA compatible elements, especially since the folks at MTA:CC eschewed passageways to separate crowds. Now that Kalikow is gone and the MTA doesn't need something extra to sop up the left over Federal money due to overruns the stationhouse, which was always superflous, is on the chopping block. Too bad the passageways the MTA left out of the original design aren't coming back, then this might be a bit more than a simple yet massively expensive ADA compatibility project. |
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