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   Peter T. Daniels to Ruben Safir   
   Re: "first new station in decades"   
   13 Sep 15 13:35:00   
   
   From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 2:42:30 PM UTC-4, Ruben Safir wrote:   
   > Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
      
   > > 34th & Eleventh opens at 1:07 tomorrow afternoon.   
   > > Who's going to use it before anything in the Yards opens?   
   > > If they hadn't turned the High Line into a park, they could've had a West   
   Side   
   > > line all the way to Gansevoort.   
   > > (I went to a concert at 14th St. in July, and it looks like the High Line   
   just   
   > > bumps into a building at 12th St. and stops.)   
   > > But since they didn't put a station at 41st, all the stockbrokers in the   
   highrises   
   > > on far W. 42nd still don't have any way to get downtown.   
   > > How long ago did Roosevelt Island and Queensbridge open? "Decades"?   
   >   
   > And the people who use it should pay and extra buck to ride there and   
   > cover the costs of the bonds issued to pay for that useless extension.   
      
   It won't be useless a few years from now when stuff opens there. They're   
   expecting 30,000 to use it each day now (I think in each direction). Would   
   it have been better not to do it until _after_ the need became obvious?   
      
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