On 25.09.15 23:32, Joseph D. Korman wrote:   
   > On 9/19/2015 12:09 AM, Bolwerk wrote:   
   >> On 09/18/2015 08:03 PM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> I don't believe there is anything like that (though the cavern gets wide   
   >> seemingly long before you approach the station).  The only provision is   
   >> the track has no downward grade where a two-platform, two-entrance   
   >> station could be installed.   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> I thought there was a downward grade starting at the curve toward 34th.   
   >> I actually climbed the escalator.  The station itself is pretty deep.   
   >>   
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   > This is the diagonal elevator for the ADA compliance:   
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   > http://www.thejoekorner.com/photos/nyctirt/flushing/hudson-yard/5i15027.jpg   
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   Funiculars, it would appear. They also have them at entrances to some   
   stations on the Helsinki Metro.   
      
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