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At Long Last, a Monorail for New York City?
New York Magazine ^
| June 19, 2013 at 3:54 PM
| Matt Taylor
Posted on 06/20/2013 9:40:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Red Badger
As bad as the pollution is now nothing compared to the disease bred from tons of horse crap and the rats and pestilence it brought.
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posted on
06/20/2013 10:42:11 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Red Badger
They had trolleys pulled by horses for public transportation. I thought, with a few modernizations, this could work today. As Colonel Potter would say - horse hockey!
You do know that the horses' favorite song is - Why Don't We Do It in The Road?
And they do - lots of it.
Rusty!
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posted on
06/20/2013 10:46:08 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Olog-hai
sounds like Bostons big dig where EVERY piggy ate off the gub mint trough.
Yes sir all you dem supporters and unionists, step right up and suck the teet of big gub mint.
To: Olog-hai
Yep . . . election coming up . . . time to throw more shovel-ready job proposals which the government can’t afford and the citizens don’t need. Some things never change.
To: Olog-hai
Meanwhile in Sydney Australia.
They are soon closing their monorail and demolishing the infrastructure.
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posted on
06/20/2013 10:56:53 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: Vaquero
The NYC illegal aliens should feel ‘right at home’.................
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posted on
06/20/2013 10:58:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Olog-hai
They might actually be easier and cheaper to build than expanding the current underground network. And the LI Expressway is totally dysfunctional because it’s simply too crowded (for that matter, the trains are overcrowded too). So this really might not be a bad idea.
I’d have to see more about it, though.
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posted on
06/20/2013 11:03:41 AM PDT
by
livius
To: John O
I thought it was Rail Rhodes.
To: xp38
Sydney Monorail is only 2 1/4 miles long.
They are demolishing it and replacing it with a light rail system.
Sounds like a spitting battle between suppliers and Union make-work project to me.
To: Olog-hai
New Yorkers always loved railroads!
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posted on
06/20/2013 11:12:18 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Olog-hai
Excellent.
Once completed, suggest they run Bloomy, the UN and CBS, NBC, ABC and the NYT out of town on it.
I’ll bring the tar. Who wants to bring the feathers??
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posted on
06/20/2013 11:14:17 AM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(There's room under my bus for BOTH Holder and obozo!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
NYC was one of the first cities to ban steam locomotives, actually. No steam was permitted south of 42nd Street, eventually, except for the elevated railroads prior to electrification, that is (one photo is linked at Post 28 on this thread of the Third Avenue Line during steam days.) If that ban never existed, it might have been the case that Grand Central Terminal would have ended up built down by the Battery.
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posted on
06/20/2013 11:25:09 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: oh8eleven
To: livius
Long Island’s becoming a basket case too. Now if they didn’t get rid of the Central Branch between East Garden City and Bethpage Junction (mostly removed when building Levittown, but a lot of the right of way is still there), they could have had an alternate rail line to Ronkonkoma and Babylon.
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posted on
06/20/2013 11:30:07 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
06/20/2013 11:50:59 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” - Orwell)
To: Olog-hai
Don’t the Dems understand how much environmental damage is done by all these infrastructure projects?!
To: Olog-hai
I liked it alot better when it had train tracks on it.
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posted on
06/20/2013 12:42:12 PM PDT
by
schm0e
("we are in the midst of a coup.")
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
06/20/2013 1:50:51 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: DManA
Like having Willy Greene reborn before our very eyes~!
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posted on
06/20/2013 1:50:51 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
06/20/2013 1:57:11 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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