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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Sep 10 18:41:54 2010, in response to Re: 9/10/77, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Sep 10 18:27:42 2010. This is all true. The end of the Jamaica El was even in better shape than Alabama, Cleveland, Crescent, etc were.And truely, the Myrtle El was also a tragedy, as that line would have been no harder to rehab than the stations on Fulton of the J...like Alabama, Cleveland, etc. If those stations could have been saved, there's no reason the Myrtle's couldn't be. It would have been a different world down Myrtle too, as back then iot was a crappy neighborhood, but today it's gentrifying....it would have gentrified a lot sooner had the el still been there. As for third Ave, I don't understand that it was never connected to the subway. Either the 3 train from the West side should have been somehow routed to there, or it should have been connected to the Lexington line. The Lexington Local could have been split to go to third Ave and Pelham, with an 8 train going to Third Ave. It would have also been ripe for connection to the SAS when completed, with the SAS going to Pelham Bay Park, and the Lexington Ave local going to Third Ave. And the R12's ran on the Third Ave El, so I am not convinced it couldn't take normal equipment. The R12's were heavy subway cars, no? |
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