From: johnl@iecc.com   
      
   > crowding down a lot with rail. HBLR via the Lincoln   
   > Tunnel would be cheap if the vehicles fit.   
      
   I've been looking at pictures of the HBLR equipment, and I don't see   
   any way you could fit them in the tunnel.  The cars are 12.27' high   
   and the tunnel's only 13" high.  You can't fit a catenary system in   
   eight inches of clearance.  I doubt you could even squash the   
   pantographs that flat.   
      
   Also, the current width limit is 8.5' and the LRVs are 8.79'.   
      
   While poking around I found some engineering papers that say there's a   
   (totally unfunded of course) plan to extend the HBLR to Secaucus Jct.   
   Flushing Line extension, anyone?   
      
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