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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

mikehiggins

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1. Urban Legend

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Nov 2, 2015, 11:43 AM

Nov 2015

This project has been talked about--and PAID FOR--since I started working in construction in 1967. It is an urban legend and a standard joke. At one point we had to stop work on the Confucius Plaza site because the trenches done for the project caused dangerous slippage in the foundation of the multi-story housing component. It was feared the building might topple into NYC's Chinatown with incredible loss of life. Then, somehow, the funding disappeared. Its been the same story all along whether the PTB call it the Second Avenue Subway, or the THird Avenue Subway.

Maybe we ought to get Trump to build it.

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