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joyousRock t1_j60ajn8 wrote

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

I don't agree with the article's extremely pessimistic tone. but they're right to raise the point that building this terminal 16 stories underground instead of figuring out a way to incorporate it into the massive already existing Grand Central was a terrible misallocation of billions of dollars.

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Farrell-Mars t1_j60etoa wrote

Amazing that now we are to imagine turning GCT into a construction site for 20 years to avoid some time on an escalator.

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zipzak t1_j61qyaf wrote

I think the issue is that to bring the new line to the same grade as the existing terminal would have required some other exceedingly expensive tunnel so the trains could wind their way up to the correct elevation. This is the same reason that the F train, which uses the same tunnel, has such deep stations under midtown east

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bankofgreed t1_j63lm8l wrote

To your point, how does the F train eventually end up at the 57 street station? I checked the depth and the 63rd street station is 155 feet deep but the 57 street stop is only 30.

How can the subway do it but not the LIRR? I’m sure there is a good answer someplace but genuinely curious.

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