Perhaps, by extending the 1 line to a new tunnel beyond the South Ferry station in Lower Manhattan to St. George on Staten Island. That will allow for connections with the Staten Island Railway, the Staten Island terminus of the ferry and Richmond County ballpark.

No way. No how.

I can only imagine the many many billions that would cost. Probably better to wait for the Bayonne Bridge replacement and include rail in the design and go into Manhattan through the PATH tunnels.

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It will be 20+ years before a 7 train extension to Secaucus could come to fruition. The MTA should focus on Metro-North, LIRR, and improvements to the subways. Leave NJ to suffer the consequences of their own bad choices.

Regardless of extra cost the tunnel should be commuter rail to traverse long distances, not a short range rapid transit line to go through it, unless it was thrown in, in addition to a commuter rail line.

Am I the only one who isn't digging those new taxi proposals?

I'm not sure the region, like the country, has the luxury to make transport policy based on absurd, meaningless jurisdictional lines and worse yet, fueled by revenge and contempt for literal neighbors and shared benefactors. Such protocol will just accelerate our non-competitiveness to ______________(fill in the blank with any number of developed and emerging centers of business and commerce - the list is long).

That's already been done and NJ did it. The possbility of any new service is dead for two decades until Amtrak decides to build new tunnels and NJT piggy backs along.

I just see no reason for the MTA to expend their limited resources in this area at present when they have a number of other worthy projects that have been on the sidelines for much longer.

It wouldn't even take a decade to build.

Even the ARC project, which is much more ambitious, wouldn't take a decade.

Much of the 7 train extension would be on the surface, paralleling the Amtrak-NJ Transit line.

Engineering, multiple EIS, alternatives analysis, public hearings, funding agreements, etc...

If all that was in hand at this moment you'd be right, actual construction would only take a few years. But it isn't.

Again, no, it doesn't take anywhere close to that long.

The ARC doesn't take 10 years.

Even the current 7 train extension is taking about 7-8 years from start to finish.

NJT's own construction timetable was 9 years.

The project itself was first put forth around 1995 and wouldn't have be done until 2018 at the earliest.

Yes , but this plan is short sighted since NJT can't expand its network west and south. I wish Politicians would shut there mouths and think , projects that sound good aren't always good in Real life. :hell:

Early talk ≠ Aggressive planning and preparation

We would be at the "early talk" stage of any possible 7 line extension.

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According to nycsubway.org, this is not the first time an extension the NYC subway to NJ has been proposed.

http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/erj-1926-njplan.html

Here is an excerpt:

I think the consensus is that, with the exception of the Turkish entry which doesn't have a chance of winning, the proposals are very underwhelming. Taxi of the future? Yeah, sure. The only standing American company, Ford, is proposing a slightly modified panel van in the Transit Connect which just recently started sales in the US. The argument is that the NY metro taxi vehicle market and the entire US market isn't large enough to warrant a specialized and purpose built vehicle and the expense factory tooling to manufacture them. I say that's bunk. How and why did Checker do it then and last sooo many years? How to NA transit bus manufacturers who build 500-2000 buses a year do it? What should have occurred here is domestic innovation coming out of the woodwork, including industrial designers and then partnering with major manufacturers. Instead, one US company, who apparently barely made an effort is the likely winner. And the competition was called Taxi of the Future? How hard is it really to change up your body styling and incorporate A/V features like the Turkish bid? It appears they barely got off the couch for this one. A shocking lack of imagination. Pathetic.

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