Summary
THE MTA may be coming our way if a Mike Bloomberg plan to bring the No. 7 subway line to Secaucus is more than another in a series of grand transit plans that go nowhere. The New York City mayor is expressing interest in extending the subway from the West Side of Manhattan to the Frank Lautenberg Rail Station in Secaucus.
A trial balloon on this very idea floated shortly after Governor Christie killed funding to the Access to the Region's Core project. ARC would have brought new tunnels under the Hudson River to a station far below 34th Street. Many a pundit, myself included, referred to it as a one-seat ride to Macy's basement. Christie killed ARC because the probable cost overruns in the billions of dollars would be borne solely by New Jersey.See the full content of this document
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It All Starts with the No. 7
The extension of the No. 7, from what I'm told, is not a new idea. But its moment may have come because it could be the driver, pun intended, for Bloomberg's long-hoped-for renaissance of the rai...
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