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Originally Posted by NYguy
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Thanks for posting that. I have to note that Joe Lhota, a former admin NYC deputy mayor , resigned from the MTA to run for NYC mayor and lost. The MTA (a NY State agency) already has serious issues funding it's next capital construction plan w/o extending the IRT Flushing subway line to New Jersey. Note that IRT Flushing line also runs the shortest LENGTH trains (implication is least number of passengers/train in the NYC subway system. However, it does have a LONG history of calls for extension, according to Wikipedia:
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Several calls for the resumption of the project [rail tunnel under East River] between 1893 and 1896, in addition to a proposed extension to New Jersey, were futile.[4][5][6][7]
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The MTA graphic below illustrates the current, still-not-open, 7 subway extension:
MTA
In addition, the Amtrak Gateway tunnel box segment between 10th & 11th Ave might be completed next year and that tunnel box is at least pointed in the "right direction", ie, towards Jersey/the Hudson River.
IMHO, NYC/NY state will get the Amtrak Gateway project, not a 7 subway extension to NJ. If it gets anything this century.