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Originally Posted by k1052
You could tunnel the 1 train to SIR for about 1/3rd the cost of the Phase 1 SAS.
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Yeah sorry man but both the benefit and the financial premise are worlds away from reality on that one. I want to see the 1 train extended to Red Hook via Gov Island like everyone else, and that is its' only logical extension.
Subway/heavy rail connection(s) to Staten Island should come in the form of a Subway connection to the Bay Ridge Line, and/or a TriboroRX/PATH connection from 65th St in Brooklyn. A via New Jersey PATH route is also extremely sensible and see my earlier post regarding the potential of a expanded-TriboroRX based scheme with a Manhattan-EWR-Staten Island-Brooklyn-(JFK)-Queens-Bronx(Port Morris Branch to as far as Fordham Rd & Co-Op City legs) belt line route operated by either PATH(because of airport connectivity) or MTA terminating at EWR w/ PATH continuing to Hoboken and Manhattan.