Comments on: Feds repeating the past with $1.3B pay-out for SAS http://secondavenuesagas.com/2007/11/19/feds-repeating-the-past-13b-pay-out-for-sas/ A New York City Subway Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:34:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathanael Nerode http://secondavenuesagas.com/2007/11/19/feds-repeating-the-past-13b-pay-out-for-sas/#comment-4432 Nathanael Nerode Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:17:10 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/2007/11/19/feds-repeating-the-past-13b-pay-out-for-sas/#comment-4432 It seems unlikely that 'phase one' will get killed at this point. Given that half of it is already constructed, it seems likely that 'phase two' will go through as well. (I don't see another NYC near-bankruptcy like the 1970s happening.) Phases 3 and 4 are far from certain, unfortunately. It seems unlikely that ‘phase one’ will get killed at this point. Given that half of it is already constructed, it seems likely that ‘phase two’ will go through as well. (I don’t see another NYC near-bankruptcy like the 1970s happening.)

Phases 3 and 4 are far from certain, unfortunately.

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]]> By: paulb http://secondavenuesagas.com/2007/11/19/feds-repeating-the-past-13b-pay-out-for-sas/#comment-4339 paulb Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:42:11 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/2007/11/19/feds-repeating-the-past-13b-pay-out-for-sas/#comment-4339 The past holdups on the SAS were for specific reasons: the Great Depression, the use of the 50s bond money to lengthen stations on the Lexington line instead, and in the 70s, how NYC's economy just fainted dead away there, for awhile. Now, I don't think we're looking at some serious reversal in the city's economy. (I hope not.) I really think that this time it's going to go through. But what about looking past the SAS? For it to be a real success, there should be new, faster subway lines feeding the SAS line with riders from the outer boroughs. At some point the Second Avenue line will begin to look like a done deal, and that's when I'd like to see NYC Transit put under some pressure to study new, fast lines to unconnected neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn, and maybe the Bronx and Staten Island, too. The past holdups on the SAS were for specific reasons: the Great Depression, the use of the 50s bond money to lengthen stations on the Lexington line instead, and in the 70s, how NYC’s economy just fainted dead away there, for awhile. Now, I don’t think we’re looking at some serious reversal in the city’s economy. (I hope not.) I really think that this time it’s going to go through.

But what about looking past the SAS? For it to be a real success, there should be new, faster subway lines feeding the SAS line with riders from the outer boroughs. At some point the Second Avenue line will begin to look like a done deal, and that’s when I’d like to see NYC Transit put under some pressure to study new, fast lines to unconnected neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn, and maybe the Bronx and Staten Island, too.

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