{"id":2828,"date":"2007-10-02T07:53:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/wasnt_sixth_avenue_nice_back_in_the_day_and_you_dont_think_people_on_the_upper_east_side_would_rather_be_riding_a_third_avenue_el_than_wait_50_years_for_a_subway.html"},"modified":"2007-10-02T07:53:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:53:51","slug":"wasnt_sixth_ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/wasnt_sixth_ave.html","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t Sixth Avenue Nice Back In The Day? And You Don&#8217;t Think People On The Upper East Side Would Rather Be Riding A Third Avenue El Than Wait 50 Years For A Subway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I&#8217;d say it would pretty much <em>replace<\/em> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/for_21_billion.html\">multi-billion dollar one-stop* enterprise<\/a> . . . welcome to the future where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10022007\/news\/regionalnews\/jump_the_fast_track_to_penn.htm\">trains zip effortlessly above the crowded macadam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One of the bids to develop the West Side rail yards will propose an elevated &#8220;people mover&#8221; to get residents and office workers in the new development to and from Penn Station, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers for the Durst Organization are developing plans for the automated light rail line that would connect the now isolated rail yards to the city&#8217;s largest transit hub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would create a direct link with Penn Station and it would complement the 7 train,&#8221; Durst spokesman Jordan Barowitz said of the people mover and its ability to link to a planned extension of the No. 7 subway line to 11th Avenue and 34th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Barowitz said the cost of a people mover has yet to be calculated. It would be operated by the developer and not the MTA.<\/p>\n<p>The fully automated people mover would be able to carry 20,000 passengers per hour. It would take one minute to travel from Penn Station to 11th Avenue and 33rd Street.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>7 train extension &#8212; done! Now, what can $2.1 billion buy?<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;One-stop&#8221; is good if you&#8217;re, like, Staples, not a public transportation link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I&#8217;d say it would pretty much replace a multi-billion dollar one-stop* enterprise . . . welcome to the future where trains zip effortlessly above the crowded macadam: One of the bids to develop the West Side rail yards will propose an elevated &#8220;people mover&#8221; to get residents and office workers in the new development [&hellip;]<\/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-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","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=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}