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Originally Posted by Crawford
You would still need to build the platform, and I don't see how this would save any money. The problem is that there is no "land" there. It's all a below-ground railyard.
And you can't move the railyard, because it's 100% utlilized for Penn Station train movements. Penn Station couldn't function without the rail yard.
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They have to build the platform in order to preserve the railyards, that is the reason there is "no land" there. If they could eliminate the railyards, it would be easier to build a structure there since they could put them directly over the ground, with conventional foundations, they would be absoultely free to drill piles, etc. and they could use the already-excavated bellow-ground space as parking garages or whatever.
Another thing is that railyards are vital for Penn Station operations and they can't be removed, but if they could, it would be certainly easier to build there.