2nd Avenue Subway at Street level

Still a total mess.

There was still a lot of activity between E 96 and E 92 today.

Ugh. Poor Peggy Olsen has been waiting for that damn thing to open since 1966.

Horrid.

Poor alanhart has been waiting for the Second Avenue subway since around WWI, preferably not as a 2-track operation. Not to mention the Independent second system. Six tracks. [obligatory 8-track audio joke here.]. Horrid.

I just met an older gentleman who grew up in Yorkville. He said that he and his rowdy friends used to sneak into the tunnel way back when this project originally started. His gang was very disappointed when they shut down the project. Now he's too old to play in the tunnels!

Have crosstown train shuttles ever been considered?
It would be so convenient. Buses still sit in traffic.
Maybe 1 at union square, another a 42nd st, and a 3rd at 125th st.

I know, pipe dreams but wow it would be so much more convenient for non vehicle travelers.

And no havent forgot about the L or the funky E and QRN routes.
Im talking about dedicated east to west manhattan only shuttles coming every 10mins

The lack of crosstown lines had something to do with political backstabbing between the Interborough Rapid Transit outfit and the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit concern. But I forgot the details.

Truthskr...we do have a shuttle at 42nd Street and effectively another at 14th (the L train). It would be great to add one at Canal, one somewhere in the 60s or 70s and one at 125th.

>The lack of crosstown lines had something to do with political backstabbing between the Interborough Rapid Transit outfit and the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit concern. But I forgot the details.

I think Shelly Silver was involved. But not that Shelly Silver.