Comments on: 2-Level Streets to SPEED TRAFFIC http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/12/2-level-streets-to-speed-traffic/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Nick Moffitt http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/12/2-level-streets-to-speed-traffic/#comment-1046617 Nick Moffitt Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:03:36 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/12/2-level-streets-to-speed-traffic/#comment-1046617 That 2nd Avenue Subway has been on the drawing board for quite a while! It's worth noting that at the time this was drawn, the 2nd Avenue elevated railway was still in operation, and it was a steel-darkened roadway for much of it. The el was torn down during WWII for the scrap steel, but the area is still an underserved transit corridor. They finally broke ground for tunneling just this past April, and plan to open in 2020. If things go as everyone expects, the thing won't open until a full century after this article was published :) That 2nd Avenue Subway has been on the drawing board for quite a while!
It’s worth noting that at the time this was drawn, the 2nd Avenue
elevated railway was still in operation, and it was a steel-darkened
roadway for much of it. The el was torn down during WWII for the scrap
steel, but the area is still an underserved transit corridor.

They finally broke ground for tunneling just this past April, and plan
to open in 2020. If things go as everyone expects, the thing won’t open
until a full century after this article was published :)

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