{"id":1982,"date":"2007-01-08T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/fulton_street_station_passages_retained_mta_board_members_to_lose_headline-grabbing_objections.html"},"modified":"2007-01-08T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T18:55:39","slug":"fulton_street_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/fulton_street_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Fulton Street Station Passages Retained; MTA Board Members To Lose Headline-Grabbing Objections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MTA decides to build a fully functional Fulton Street station and the public loses one of the more arcane debates over transportation infrastructure to come in some time<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It appears that subway riders can now look forward to both an architecturally ambitious station and an underground connection to the E train when the center opens in October 2009.<\/p>\n

It also appears that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is ready to spend some of its own money to make up the difference between the $847 million in federal funds that have been committed to the project and its current estimated cost of $888 million.<\/p>\n

The transit center was originally proposed as part of the revival of Lower Manhattan after 9\/11. It was to straighten out as much as possible the spaghetti plate of subway lines — A, C, E, J, M, Z, R, W, 2, 3, 4 and 5 — converging around Fulton Street. Many of these stations are currently connected, but the passageways between them are constricted and confusing.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the center, at is was unveiled in 2004, was a new glass-clad entrance building, or headhouse, at Broadway and Fulton Street, topped by a glass dome not unlike a seashell in shape with a skylight that would scoop daylight down to the station below.<\/p>\n

In the months and years since, the plan’s scope was repeatedly cut back because of budget constraints. Some changes, like the elimination of a subbasement, went unquestioned.<\/p>\n

But in November, a minor revolt on the authority’s board greeted the proposed elimination of a passageway planned between the R and W lines and the E train terminus at the World Trade Center. Several members cast it as an either-or issue, pitting the form of the headhouse against the function of the passageway.<\/p>\n

“We are not building cathedrals here,” said one board member, Nancy Shevell Blakeman.<\/p>\n

Back at their drawing boards in recent weeks, the authority’s planners found that they could build a relatively inexpensive connector by using a corner of what is now the temporary PATH terminal rather than a route under Church Street.<\/p>\n

Despite threats by board members to scuttle the dome, the plans were apparently never seriously in danger of being scaled back much further than they had already been.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also: Between Simpler Transfer Or Fancy Roof, I Want The Roof!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MTA decides to build a fully functional Fulton Street station and the public loses one of the more arcane debates over transportation infrastructure to come in some time: It appears that subway riders can now look forward to both an architecturally ambitious station and an underground connection to the E train when the center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}