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Re: ''Just only'' $1.4 Billion to build Staten Island North Shore & West Shore Lines? |
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Posted by Hank Eisenstein on Tue Jul 15 08:11:42 2008, in response to Re: "Just only" $1.4 Billion to build Staten Island North Shore & West Shore Lines?, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jul 13 02:48:52 2008. The North Shore line is in such serious disrepair that they'd likely need to tear out anything that exists and replace it. The ROW hasn't seen a train in 20+ years; the section that runs along the waterfront is so badly deteriorated that in some places the rails hang in midair above the shoreline. And the line runs through a number of private industrial properties, without any grade speration (Caddell, Atlantic Salt) and under a building that I'm surprised hasn't been completely demolished (US Gypsum). The costs don't surprise me. A better solotion, given the cost, would be a completely new line along the SI Expressway from the existing ROW to Richmond Ave.As for a line along the West Shore Expressway? Completely useless. There is such a low population along that corridor, the cost could never be justified. |
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