by railtrailbiker
The metropolitan region will need significantly more commuter rail and subway access to Midtown and Lower Manhattan over the next two decades in order to offset stagnation of job growth, a new report says.
The study, to be released Monday by New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, supported development of a Second Avenue subway line and a Long Island Rail Road connection at Grand Central Terminal. It also recommended new rail tunnels be dug under both the Hudson River and the East River, all to encourage growth in Manhattan.
``We've gone through 40 years where we've really forgotten about the significance of building new capacity,'' Rosemary Scanlon, one of the report's authors, told The New York Times in Monday editions. ``All of the major cities in the world seem able to grab hold of what they need to expand and grow. We seem to be myopic about it.''
With growth of 0.6 percent a years, the report finds Manhattan's central business district would have 2.3 million jobs in 2025, with workers making 560,000 rush-hour work trips a day. That number equals 51 additional subway trains a day, filled with 1,400 passengers, entering Manhattan.
The cost of such an expansion project would be about $32.6 billion, the study said. But it also warns against not embarking on it.
``New York risks the possibility of having a real ceiling on the economic growth of the financial capital of the country,'' said Elliot Sander, the director of the Rudin Center.
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_st ... 15917.html
The study, to be released Monday by New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, supported development of a Second Avenue subway line and a Long Island Rail Road connection at Grand Central Terminal. It also recommended new rail tunnels be dug under both the Hudson River and the East River, all to encourage growth in Manhattan.
``We've gone through 40 years where we've really forgotten about the significance of building new capacity,'' Rosemary Scanlon, one of the report's authors, told The New York Times in Monday editions. ``All of the major cities in the world seem able to grab hold of what they need to expand and grow. We seem to be myopic about it.''
With growth of 0.6 percent a years, the report finds Manhattan's central business district would have 2.3 million jobs in 2025, with workers making 560,000 rush-hour work trips a day. That number equals 51 additional subway trains a day, filled with 1,400 passengers, entering Manhattan.
The cost of such an expansion project would be about $32.6 billion, the study said. But it also warns against not embarking on it.
``New York risks the possibility of having a real ceiling on the economic growth of the financial capital of the country,'' said Elliot Sander, the director of the Rudin Center.
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_st ... 15917.html
