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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Regional Rail to Lower Manhattan
Staten Islanders’ desire for a subway connection got me thinking again about my previous proposal for a tunnel from Staten Island to Manhattan, possibly with a cross-platform connection to Brooklyn and New Jersey. From all points of view, it is … Continue reading
Posted in New York, Regional Rail, Transportation
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Megaregional Change
Just as transportation networks can create a new megaregion, so can they work to destroy one. Back in 1910, the golden age of manufacturing centralization, the US had a megaregion, namely the core formed by the quadrilateral whose vertices are … Continue reading
Posted in Urbanism
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