Posted on 01/14/2016 1:53:42 PM PST by BenLurkin
The MTA might totally shut down L-train service between Manhattan and Brooklyn for more than a year — creating a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of straphangers on the already cramped route.
The drastic measure on hipster heaven Williamsburg’s transit lifeline would be the quickest and cheapest way to repair damage to the 80-year-old Canarsie Tube under the East River caused by Hurricane Sandy, said MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg.
The step would be similar to when the MTA shut down R-train service through the Montague tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn for 14 months from August 2013 to September 2014 to repair Sandy damage to that aging tunnel.
"We could do what we did with Montague, where we shut the train down for more than a year," said Lisberg. “We do all the necessary work around the clock, doing it as fast as humanly possible and not forcing people to suffer through reduced service.â€
But daily ridership through the Canarsie tunnel is 225,000, far more than the 65,000 daily passengers who take the R train through the Montague tunnel.
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Let the yuppies take the bus.
Ferry service
They can always take Uber.
For some of the riders farther out on the “L” line, a trip on the Long Island Railroad might work. For people closer in, it’s going to be a mess.
When a bridge is built here the original is left in place. Second bridge is built next to it When the second is operational the first is removed.
I lived in Williamsburg in the 1990’s and yes, the L train is the only way. Can’t even imagine the hardship.
Do like they do in your admired country china take a bike
Not needed, they are preparing for another Sandy, a 100-year flood. Service has been running fine leave it be and be happy collecting your outrageous fares.
Unfortunately, the selfish brats will probably start a campaign to get a high-speed monorail built between the two points.
It matters not the cost nor the inconvenience nor what it destroys, these brats want to be able to email their European friends that they take a high-speed monorail to and from NYC. That’s all that matters.
Trust me. I lived in the city of Seassholes for 10 years. The idiot young hipsters will destroy anything to feel hipper.
And if they didn’t repair it and the tunnel collapsed or whatever killing hundreds then the MSM would have had a field day with it more so than they will when it closes.
The problem here is that they are not building a new tunnel, they are repairing the old tunnels (two tunnels, one in each direction). Building a new tunnel would take much, much longer and would be much, much more costly.
One solution they have considered is keeping one of the two tunnels open while they fix the other, and running trains one direction at a time through the working tunnel, but that would be a worse logistical mess than just shutting both tunnels and fixing them both at the same time.
The repairs are necessary, but the situation is not quite that dire. The tunnels are structurally sound - the problem is the subway equipment in the tunnels. The tunnels took on salt water during Hurricane Sandy, which has caused erosion of the old electrical equipment in the tubes. To date, they have been fixing things piecemeal, but they eventually have to basically strip everything out and re-do the entire interior of the tunnels.
They did a similar project in one of the other tunnels (the R train, which runs between Brooklyn and the very bottom of Manhattan). That tunnel was shut down for a little over a year, which was a bit of a pain in the a**, but was mitigated by the fact that there were a ton of alternative subway lines serving (roughly) the same parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan (the A, B, C, D, F, J, M, Z, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines). By contrast, where the L runs between Brooklyn and Manhattan, there are really no alternative routes.
Thanks for that. As one who was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens for a bit I like stories about that area; folks moved to Washington state when I was seven.
they’re not yuppies. many yuppies are conservative.
they are hipsters, ultra left wingers who gobbled up all the real estate after blacks could no longer afford their own neighborhood, but will be the first to decry the injustices done to blacks.
TOFU, Yoga and organic restaurants have popped up like pimple on a teen boy’s face.
this story has lifted my spirits for the day.
I can’ believe they call them “hipsters”.
I haven’t heard that in years.
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Maybe they could borrow “Big Bertha” to dig a new tunnel/s
Maybe now it’ll get less “cool” for the rich posers and real artists will afford to move back in
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