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Re: (erielack) IND Second System,7&L was AMTRAK F-40s for Pocono service?

"RRSon239078481_@_aol.com" wrote:
> 
> Plans were made for the A Train to operate in NJ via the GWB's lower deck.
> Because of the Port Authority it was never done. With the A Express from
> Brooklyn to 168th Street it could have ran to Newark and brought people into
> NYC faster and more direct to their points.>

The George Washington Bridge was built by the PANYNJ.  Yes it may have
been in the conceptual plans but probably it was to go to the west end
of the bridge.  To go from Mid-town NYC to Newark via 168th street and
the GWB is not direct!

> On PATH going west from 44th
> Street the 7 line could be extended to NJ displacing NJT's 108 bus route. The
> L is another line that could have been extended to NJ meeting up with the
> IronBound A(Today C) to NJPAC while the 7 went to Penn Station via Giants
> Stadium.
> 
Blue sky wishfull thinking.

bob gillis


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