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#21 AlanB

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Posted 15 September 2006 - 07:44 PM

With that I conclude my little walk through NY's transportation history caused by the tragic 9/11 attacks. Today the NY City subway is almost completely back to its pre 9/11 form, other than some long planned changes that have since taken place and were not the result of 9/11. Even the heavily damaged South Ferry line, as well as the destroyed Path station have been restored. The South Ferry line returning to service about 1 year after the disaster, having been completely rebuilt, was the last section of the system to return. Although even now, what was the Cortland Street station is still out of service and the full new station hasn't even been built. Only the platforms for a new station exist and it will remain that way until construction starts on new buildings for the site, since the station must be incorporated into whatever is built above it. This however is the only pre-9/11 part of the NYC transit system that has not reopened. Two good things that did come out of this disaster are currently under way in downtown Manhattan. The first is a new station that is being built at South Ferry for the #1 line. The new station will allow all 10 cars on the train to actually platform. Currently only 5 cars actually open their doors at South Ferry. The second and much more important, is the work now under way that will eventually create one massive underground complex that will allow people to easily transfer between every subway line that runs in southern Manhattan, as well as the PATH trains, without ever needing to step outside or pay an additional fare other than the transfer to/from PATH. I hope that all who have read this topic realize that my intent was not so much to relive the actual disaster, but to show how this city struggled to deal with the changes wrought by the disaster and how it fought its way back to normal and in some cases, the almost Herculean efforts to get back to normal.
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Posted 10 September 2011 - 07:59 PM

As we approach the 10th anniversary tomorrow of this tragic day in our history, I thought that I'd bring back to the forefront of things some observations that I made about the transit systems in the NYC area on that day and the weeks following for some of the newer members who might not have had a chance to read this when I first posted it on the 5 year anniversary.
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Posted 10 September 2011 - 08:00 PM

Two good things that did come out of this disaster are currently under way in downtown Manhattan. The first is a new station that is being built at South Ferry for the #1 line. The new station will allow all 10 cars on the train to actually platform. Currently only 5 cars actually open their doors at South Ferry. The second and much more important, is the work now under way that will eventually create one massive underground complex that will allow people to easily transfer between every subway line that runs in southern Manhattan, as well as the PATH trains, without ever needing to step outside or pay an additional fare other than the transfer to/from PATH.


And just to update things a bit, the new South Ferry station is now open and in daily use. Additionally, a connection between the new South Ferry station and the Whitehall station on the Broadway line was built, permitting both a transfer between these lines that did not exist 10 years ago and getting those riding the B'way line closer to the Ferry Terminal via underground passageways. This is a huge benefit on days with bad weather.

The other major project, that is the downtown transfer center, is still currently under construction. Some new connections are now in place, but they still have a ways to go with this, but already riders are benefiting from the new connections. One major section was just reopened this weekend right in time for the anniversary, that being the downtown Cortland Street stop on the B’way line
Alan,

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