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Old Posted Jan 22, 2011, 8:57 PM
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Only problem is building on or around a major transit station is a huge pain. Unlike a normal subway station, you can't just shut it down. Look at the WTC Path terminal, they have to build 2 terminals (excluding the near-copy rebuild of the original station after 9/11), one temporary at great expense ($600 million if I recall correctly) and THEN the permanent one in order to avoid interfering with the flow of traffic.
When they demolished Penn Station and built the MSG, they pulled it off somehow, so why wouldn't they be able to do it again? I agree though, it would be a major pain.
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