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   Peter T. Daniels to Peter T. Daniels   
   Re: "first new station in decades"   
   18 Sep 15 17:03:50   
   
   From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 11:42:10 PM UTC-4, 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"?   
      
   Heading back to PABT, I hopped onto the 7 to take the new trip. (So did   
   two other people who managed to miss all the signs, permanent and paper,   
   festooning the Times Sq station pointing them to Track 2 <== Only to Queens.)   
      
   It was about 4 minutes to the end of the line, 2 min to the beginning of   
   the left turn. I didn't notice any hollows where another station could be   
   installed, but the lighting is low.   
      
   And the outgoing train on the other track closed its doors just before ours   
   opened, so we had to wait for our train to head out again ... but when the   
   next train came in, its passengers were able to cross and board our train.   
   So I didn't see much of the station. It's quite wide, and I think it's   
   closer to the surface -- we seemed to be climbing on the 41st St. stretch --   
   which bodes ill for continuing it on to Secaucus/East Rutherford.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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