Incredible Images Of The Massive New Tunnels Hollowing New York City

[THE 101]

Incredible Images Of The Massive New Tunnels Hollowing New York City | Gizmodo Australia

 

[THE 101]

 

[intilectual recipricol]

looks like they gettin ready for some end of days type shyt. what goin on maynes?

 

[el_oh_el]

Damn..didn't know they had the money for that type of construction in this day and age..
Too bad here in Texas we don't get tunnels, basements and other ish of that nature due to our soil..would be pretty interesting to have a subway

 

[Canada Goose]

looks like they gettin ready for some end of days type shyt. what goin on maynes?

The tunnel in the photos is a new Rail tunnel they are building, so people from Long Island can have better access to the East Side of Manhattan..

 

[Tommy Fits]

Tunnel Town, the future home of NYC's middle class ?

 

[zerozero]

Too bad here in Texas we don't get tunnels, basements and other ish of that nature due to our soil..would be pretty interesting to have a subway

Texan soil ranks really low on the list of reasons there's no city rail though. A lot of metro/subway systems include major above-ground areas

 

[radio rahiem]

it's the 2nd avenue line, supposed to ease the congestion on the lexington avenue line.
IRT Lexington Avenue Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i'm more amazed that some of these tunnels are damn near 100 years old

 

[NYChase718]

::ghost train rides thru screaming frightened winston"

"did you catch the number of the train?"

"sorry....i missed it..."

 

[NYChase718]

theyve been doing this shyt since 2006? didnt recall any1 was ever informed

 

[alybaba]

That's some Bane shyt.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, making it the largest in North America. And there's even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used. They form a kind of ghost system that reveals how the city's transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.

Historian Joe Cunningham knows as much as anyone about the subway and how it's evolved since it opened in 1904. He stood before a map of it on a wall in Penn Station and considered its extent. The system is vast, reaching like an octopus from Manhattan to almost every neighborhood outside Staten Island. Cunnningham said that's because its planners have always thought big.

"Oh yeah, it was a bold undertaking and little by little it just grew over a period of about 45 years," he said. He also pointed out the gaps in service: southeast Brooklyn, central and eastern Queens, straight up the middle of the Bronx.

Almost all of those neighborhoods were set to get their own subways. Most of those lines died on the drafting table, but some were begun and then abandoned when the city ran out of money or pursued other priorities.

"After World War II, prices had gone up substantially and it became obvious that it was not going to be possible to build all of the lines they would've like to have built," he explained.

Inside the City's Ghost Subway System - WNYC

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

Crysis 3 screenshots?

 

[ZEB WALTON]

my company is bidding on that job and hopes to secure it. im workin on 2nd ave subway right now, this shyt DWARFS it

 

[ZEB WALTON]

it's the 2nd avenue line, supposed to ease the congestion on the lexington avenue line.
IRT Lexington Avenue Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i'm more amazed that some of these tunnels are damn near 100 years old

na thats east side access, i work on the 2nd ave line from 63-96th, most of that is existing tunnel. this shyt is new compared to the 2nd ave tunnels which been dug for 20 years alreeady