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CJPat wrote:Is it truly impossible to rebuild the LV Branch? As I understand, the ROW, or atleast part of the ROW, was sold off to a developer who was building townhouses or condiminiums in the area in the mid '90s. Is there no land left for the ROW or insufficient area for safety clearances?I believe that the actual ROW for this branch is unencumbered (well, except for 'magikal expanding gardens') with the minimun width necessary for clearance (I have some pictures of this area I took a while back, and the homes are NOT on the ROW), and while the LV connection may perhaps have been the better one operationally, M&E soon enough will have the CNJ fully functional, and they really don't need two interchanges (besides, wasn't the CNJ interchange the only one used during the last years of the Delaware Ostago system?)
CJPat wrote:Is it truly impossible to rebuild the LV Branch? As I understand, the ROW, or atleast part of the ROW, was sold off to a developer who was building townhouses or condiminiums in the area in the mid '90s. Is there no land left for the ROW or insufficient area for safety clearances?Like the Monsanto branch and the Newark Heights branch before it, the LV branch is indeed gone--sold off--with houses and other buildings where the ROW once was.
Of course, if it could be rebuilt, you could bank on a whole lot of additional NIMBYs jumping into the fray even though they live with their backs against the LVRR.
Sir Ray wrote:I believe that the actual ROW for this branch is unencumbered (well, except for 'magikal expanding gardens')That's much more of an issue west of Mountain Ave. in Springfield...