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kent2441 t1_j5zn9ur wrote

Reply to comment by pixel_of_moral_decay in New York City Completes Construction on Latest American Transit Disaster by mowotlarx

None of it is simple. But instead of dealing with infrastructure to support a shallower station during construction, we’ll be dealing with a station that takes ten minutes to get out of for centuries.

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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_j5zsay9 wrote

You’d have that anyway. It’s either going to be a long tunnel or an escalator. The amount of underground land off limits there do to various train lines and platforms is insane.

It would be like the passageway between 42nd street. A long crowded walk.

You’d also have to deal with modern safety standards. There’s not nearly enough exists on that thing by today’s standards. So you’d need to find ways for at least some emergency exists, build and buy some land for all that.

Still complicated, still expensive, not making things faster.

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