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Originally Posted by ardecila
Seems like it would improve the environment/air quality/road safety by taking thousands of trucks off the roads.
Plus, a tunnel portal and a stadium are not mutually exclusive. It's pretty easy to build the stadium to allow for the future tunnel.
The bigger problem is subway access, which is kinda crappy out in Bay Ridge (long walk from the R, even longer from the N). They could set up a nice ferry service, though.
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Right- it would be easy to build a stadium if you're already building a tunnel which begins, presumably, farther inland than the length of the stadium.
But environmentally it would be a 5 mile (plus or minus) excavation of clay and rock which would take a decade and all of it has to go somewhere and be moved by something. All the machines doing the work would need fuel and thus give off plenty of exhaust into densely populated neighborhoods. All the debris would have to be trucked somewhere and we can assume that somewhere would be the already compromised wetlands of NJ. They can't just dump it into the bay which is already dredged to keep it clear for ever larger ships. So the environmental analysis is against it- the impact the rail tunnel would cause at this point > trucking goods to Long Island.
I get your subway point too (I can be lazy) but it's all pretty much moot since it ain't happening!
Fun to think about though.