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The Utica Avenue station shell, if complete, would be in the standard local-express-express-local platform configuration.

Details

The first plan was made on September 15, 1929 (before the IND even opened), and is detailed in the table below. Cost is only for construction, and doesn't include land acquisition or other items.

Planned services

• A – 207th Street – Eighth Avenue – Fulton – Lefferts Boulevard
• AA – 168th Street – Eighth Avenue – Worth Street – South Fourth Street – Myrtle Avenue – Far Rockaway (non-rush)
• BB – 168th Street – Sixth Avenue – Worth Street – South Fourth Street – Myrtle Avenue – Far Rockaway (rush hours)
• CC – Concourse – Eighth Avenue – Houston Street – South Fourth Street – Utica Avenue
• D – Concourse – Sixth Avenue – Houston Street – South Fourth Street – Utica Avenue
• E – Archer – Queens Boulevard – Eighth Avenue – Fulton – Rockaway Park
• EE – Long Island Expressway – Queens Boulevard – 60th Street – BMT Broadway Line (Long Island Expressway added from ERA)
• F – Queens Boulevard – Sixth Avenue – Houston Street – Culver
• GG – Forest Hills – Crosstown – Church Avenue
• HH – Euclid Avenue – Rockaway Park – Far Rockaway (nights)
• HH – Cross Bay Boulevard – Far Rockaway (days)
• J – Crosstown – Myrtle Avenue – Roosevelt
• K – Far Rockaway – Roosevelt
• Q – Dyre Avenue – Second Avenue – Manhattan Bridge – BMT Southern Division
• R – 110th Street – Second Avenue – BMT Broadway Line
• T – Queens Boulevard Line – 63rd Street – Second Avenue – South Fourth – Utica Avenue
• V – Archer – Queens Boulevard – Sixth Avenue – Houston – Culver
• W – Pelham – Second Avenue – Court Street – Fulton – 105th Street (Long Island Expressway added from ERA)

1929–1940 plans

Later plans included the following:

• (1931 plan) A line splitting from the Second Avenue Line north of Houston Street, running southeast, merging with the Houston Street Line, and crossing the East River from Stanton Street towards the huge line under South Fourth Street.
• (1931 plan) A line splitting from the Crosstown Line where it turns from Lafayette Avenue to Marcy Avenue, continuing under Lafayette Avenue and Stanhope Street to a junction with the line under Myrtle Avenue.
• (1939 plan) A line splitting from the South Brooklyn (Culver) Line at Fort Hamilton Parkway, and running under Fort Hamilton Parkway to end at 86th Street. A branch would split to run under Ovington Avenue and Senator Street, with a tunnel under the Narrows to Staten Island at the St. George Terminal. The line would split, with the north branch ending at Westervelt Avenue around Hamilton Avenue, and the south branch ending at Grant Street around St. Pauls Street. It was presumably designed this way to provide future service to both the Main Line and North Shore Staten Island Railway lines. The Staten Island Tunnel commenced construction in the 1920s, but was not completed.
• (1939 plan) An extension of the IRT Lenox Avenue Line to connect with the IRT Ninth Avenue Line.
• (1940 plan, revised 1945) The IND Fulton Street Line would connect to what is now the IND Rockaway Line. A branch of the IND Fulton Street Line would run to a stub-end terminal at 105th Street. The line, east of Euclid Avenue , would be 4 tracks until Cross Bay Boulevard, where the two branches would split.
• (unknown date) A third 2-track tunnel under the East River, from the north side of the South Fourth Street/Union Avenue station (as built for six tracks) west to Delancey Street.
• (unknown date) A line splitting from the Stuyvesant Avenue line, going southeast under Broadway.
• (unknown date) A line under Flushing Avenue from the huge line under Beaver Street to Horace Harding Boulevard (Long Island Expressway).

An earlier plan in 1920 had an even more expansive plan, with several dozen subway lines going across all five boroughs.

1941–1999 plans

1951

In 1951, a plan was put forth to the New York Board of Transportation. Many things were planned:

• Second Avenue Subway between 149th Street, the Bronx, to Grand Street, Manhattan. This line would handle 68 trains per hour (tph) (34 tph on the express tracks and 34 tph on the local tracks).
  • Connections to the IRT Pelham Line at Third Avenue – 138th Street and to the IRT White Plains Road Line at Third Avenue – 149th Street.
  • A tunnel to the IND Sixth Avenue Line via 57th Street.
  • A tunnel under the East River to Eastern Queens via a planned super-express bypass to the LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch.
    • A connection from the IND Queens Boulevard Line to the Rockaway Beach Branch and IND Rockaway Line.
• Various Bronx IRT projects:
  • Increase in capacity on the IRT Pelham Line.
  • Connection of the IRT Dyre Avenue Line to the IRT White Plains Road Line.
  • Increase in capacity on the IRT White Plains Road Line north of Gun Hill Road by 8 trains per hour. (At the time, the IRT Third Avenue Line still connected to the IRT White Plains Road Line at Gun Hill Road.)
  • Increase in capacity on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line by 9 trains per hour.
• The Chrystie Street Connection:
  • IND Sixth Avenue Line express tracks.
  • DeKalb Avenue rebuilding, including closure of the Myrtle Avenue station. This would increase capacity by 18 tph.
    • Increase in capacity on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line's local tracks by 4 tph.
    • Increase in capacity on the BMT Sea Beach Line by 9 tph.
    • Increase in capacity on the BMT West End Line by 5 tph.
  • Connection of the IND Second Avenue and IND Sixth Avenue Lines to the BMT Jamaica Line and to the Manhattan Bridge.
• Increase in capacity on the BMT Brighton Line by 8 tph by adding a connection from the BMT Brighton Line to the IND Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue.
• 60th Street Tunnel Connection.
• Extension of the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line to Voorhies Avenue.
• Construction of the IRT Utica Avenue Line from Crown Heights – Utica Avenue to Kings Plaza.

1968

Similar plans were made by the NYCTA in 1968. They included:

• The IND Second Avenue Line with connections to IRT Dyre Avenue Line and IRT Pelham Line
• A crosstown line under 34th Street
• IND/BMT 63rd Street Line
• A new line running along Park Avenue in the Bronx
• Super-express bypass of IND Queens Boulevard Line
• New line splitting from the IND Queens Boulevard Line under the Long Island Expressway to Kissena Boulevard in Phase I and to Springfield Boulevard in Phase II
• Archer Avenue Line to Springfield Boulevard
• IRT Nostrand Avenue Line extension to Avenue W in Sheepshead Bay
• A new line running under Utica Avenue to Avenue U
• Extension of the BMT Canarsie Line to Nostrand Avenue or JFK Airport
• Extension of the IRT New Lots Line to Flatlands Avenue
• Extension of the IND Concourse Line to White Plains Road

1998

In 1998, an extension of the BMT Astoria Line to LaGuardia Airport was planned, but the plan was canceled in 2003 following community opposition.

21st-century expansion

Since the 2000s, the New York City Subway has undergone its biggest expansion program since the late 1960s. With at least four stations under construction and up to 15 more subway stations definitively planned, the expansion plan pales in comparison to the IND Second System plans and the 1968 expansion plan noted above.

7 Subway Extension

The 7 Subway Extension — Hudson Yards Rezoning and Development Program is the plan to extend the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, which carries the 7 local and <7> express services, further westward into the New York City borough of Manhattan. The extension stretches a total of 1 mile (1.6 km) from its current terminus at Times Square to a new western terminus at 34th Street and 11th Avenue. However, the tunnels are actually 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. A second station at 10th Avenue – 41st Street was dropped from the plans in October 2007, but could be restored if funding can be found. The extension's opening had been delayed to June 2014, with the rest of the 34th Street station to open at the end of 2015. Michael Horodniceanu, chief of MTA Construction Company, told The New York Times that complications in the installation of the inclined elevator would likely cause a further delay of about three months, bringing the opening date to very late summer or early fall of 2014. Further complications in February 2014 brought the projected date of the opening to November 2014.

Second Avenue Subway

The Second Avenue Subway (SAS) is a planned rapid transit subway line, part of the New York City Subway system. As of 2013, Phase I, consisting of two miles (3.2 km) of tunnel and three stations, is under construction underneath Second Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is slated for completion in December 2016.

The most recent and financially secure construction plan was launched when a tunnelling contract was awarded to the consortium of Schiavone/Shea/Skanska (S3) by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on March 20, 2007. This followed preliminary engineering and a final tunnel design completed by a joint venture between AECOM and Arup. Parsons Brinckerhoff is the Construction Manager of the project. This contract, and the full funding grant agreement with the Federal Transit Administration, which was received in November 2007, is for Phase I of the project, a new line between the existing BMT 63rd Street Line and 96th Street and Second Avenue. The total cost of the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) line is expected to top $17 billion.

A ceremonial ground-breaking for the Second Avenue Subway was held on April 12, 2007; the contractor prepared the initial construction site at 96th Street on April 23, 2007. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) was originally expected to arrive six to eight months after construction began, but the utility relocation and excavation required to create its "launch box" delayed its deployment until May 2010. By May 2010, the TBM launch box was complete, and on May 14, 2010, MTA's contractors completed the TBM installation and turned it on. On March 28, 2011, S3, having completed the west tunnel to 65th Street, began drilling for the east tunnel. The TBM completed its run to the 63rd Street station's bellmouth on September 22, 2011.

Triboro RX

A proposal for the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch would have the New York City Subway use the tracks to link Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx via the Hell Gate Bridge. In 1996 the Regional Plan Association conducted a study to determine the feasibility of the rail link. Based on Paris's RER commuter rail system, the Triboro RX proposal will create a loop around the city. It was first proposed by the Regional Plan Association in 1996, and has been denounced as disastrous by some. The proposed line, discussion of which was revived in 2012, would connect to all non-shuttle subway services. Obstacles for the proposal include the proposed Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel, the lack of electrification on the line, and the single-tracking in some parts of the line. Additionally, there is debate on where the line's northern terminus would be: some project it to end at Hunts Point, while others plan the line to end at Yankee Stadium.

Other plans

Some plans call for the IND Rockaway Line to be extended along the right-of-way of the LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, as the success of a new racino at Aqueduct Racetrack led to a proposal from Governor Andrew Cuomo to build a massive convention center in the vicinity. Talks of reactivating the line were publicly endorsed in February 2012 by Assemblymen Phillip Goldfeder and Michael G. Miller. Goldfeder commented “The commute for people here is only going to go from bad to worse. You can’t talk about a convention center without talking about transportation.” Goldfeder and Miller said they are not opposed to turning sections of the line into a park, but said people who live in Rockaway, Ozone Park and other areas have no quick or easy way to get into Manhattan. The Genting Group, which operates the racino and has been asked to construct the convention center, are evaluating several plans to increase transportation access. Genting is committed to paying for part of the transportation improvements. Queensway advocates are against resumption of rail service, stating that current bus service fills current transportation needs in the area. Congressmen Hakeem Jeffries and Gregory Meeks added their support for the project in March 2013. Both representatives will push to allocate federal transportation subsidies to study a plan for restored passenger service.

The BMT Astoria Line extension to LaGuardia Airport is again being considered as part of LaGuardia's long-range expansion/renovation plan. Currently, no New York City Subway routes service the airport directly, but provisions for a subway connection are part of a 2014 long range rebuilding plan by the MTA.

Legacy

• 63rd Street Line
• Archer Avenue Line
• Second Avenue Subway
• 7 Subway Extension

References

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2. "The Dual System of Rapid Transit (1912)". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
3. ^ Track diagram of the revised plan
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Further reading

• 100 Miles of Subway in New City Project; 52 of them in Queens, New York Times September 16, 1929 page 1

External links

• NYCsubway.org – IND Second System
• NYCsubway.org – Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
• Abandoned Stations – IND Second System unfinished stations
• Abandoned Stations – Roosevelt Ave upper level
• Broadway-South 4 Street Station (junction with the Crosstown Line) photos
• Roosevelt Avenue-Winfield Spur Station (split from the Queens Boulevard Line) photos
• JoeKorNer – IND Second System (including a plan for a line to Staten Island)
• JoeKorNer – Roosevelt Rockaway Line (photos of the unused station)

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