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Old Posted Nov 9, 2018, 10:29 PM
k1052 k1052 is offline
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Originally Posted by BrownTown View Post
It's 5 miles of water between Staten Island and Manhattan. That's over 5x the width of the Hudson which we are expecting will need a 30 Billion dollar project to get under. Indeed it's 2x as long as the entire length of the tunnel including the parts in NJ and Manhattan.

I would seriously question if NYC even has the ability to build such a tunnel any more at ANY cost.
$30B cost for Gateway includes leveling a block of Midtown and building a hideously expensive multilayer station, plus a few other big ticket items.

Just bore from South Ferry to Brooklyn, run basically under the Gowanas Expressway to the army terminal and cross the 2 mile gap to St. George. No stations or anything, just tunnel/rail/power/life safety.
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