Did you know they're building a tunnel 800 feet under from NYC to LI ?

[rh71]

They already started in the Manhattan end... saw it on the Discovery Channel last night (between watching that and my Caps play) ... plans are in the works for a new high-speed train system to replace the Long Island Rail Road. It'll drop the daily LI <=> NYC commute by 40 minutes. They had to dig this deep because of all the sub-level basements Manhattan buildings come with, as well as the pipes, etc. that exist between there and Queens --> towns on the island.

NO WONDER THEY'RE RAISING THE FARES.

This would be so cool... get to NYC in 5-10 minutes... where it usually takes close to an hour from here.

 

[Radiohead]

No I did not know that

 

[Tom]

That's pretty deep. Do you think they'll have escalators to get down there ?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
That's pretty deep. Do you think they'll have escalators to get down there ?

They mentioned in any given day, the new system would be able to handle 40,000 commuters... that'd be a lot to take via elevator, don't you think ?

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
That's pretty deep. Do you think they'll have escalators to get down there ?

Nah, just a big metal chute you jump down.

 

[Spooner]

Still can't beat our Big Dig in boston

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Spooner
Still can't beat our Big Dig in boston

Wat dat ?

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: Spooner
Still can't beat our Big Dig in boston

is that one done yet?

 

[ragazzo]

Originally posted by: Radiohead
No I did not know that

 

[Shockwave]

Yeah, cant beat the Big Dig project for the most over budget and behind schedule project of the century.

bigdig.com if your interested

 

[bigrash]

I didn't hear about this before.

It should be awesome

 

[conjur]

Only 40,000 people? That's like...one neighborhood in NYC, right?

 

[sohcrates]

saw that show last night. tonight i think they have another one about a transatlantic tunnel from NYC to france!

(though who would want to go there?)

 

[rudder]

I see another sylvester stallone movie in the works.

 

[zippy]

Originally posted by: rudder
I see another sylvester stallone movie in the works.

Or another Die Hard movie.

Die Hard: With a Tunnel

Looks like a winner to me.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: rudder
I see another sylvester stallone movie in the works.

No, but in the same show, they were talking about "smart trains" for the NYC subways... where a sensor on the bottom of each smart train would identify where it was on the tracks for safety reasons. All of this is controlled by computers. All you need for a terrorist to do is hack in there... and boom goes the trains...

 

[Moonbeam]

Man, 800 ft has got to be the shortest railroad this side of a Lionel set.

 

[zippy]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Man, 800 ft has got to be the shortest railroad this side of a Lionel set.

It's 800 feet below ground - not 800 feet long.

 

[SoylentGreen]

They should make one across Long Island Sound

 

[jagr10]

They should make one across the US. Each state makes one and then they connect them all up. lol. Imagine, one fair gets ya from Texas to NY.

 

[MaxDSP]

I thought I was the only one that watched the stuf on Discovery and TLC...


The one about the tunnel between France and NYC is supposed to come on today at 9/8 central


Extreme Engineering
Transatlantic Tunnel
60 min.
Examining the potential of intercontinental rail travel that would incorporate floating tunnels with 300mph magnetically levitated trains travelling between Newfoundland and Scotland. (VCR Plus+ 194871)


Rating: TV-G
Category: Science & Technology
Release Year: 2003



Additional Airings
Date Time Channel VCR Plus+
Wednesday, 16 11:00 PM 21 DSC 834149
Saturday, 19 6:00 PM 21 DSC 757797

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: jagr10
They should make one across the US. Each state makes one and then they connect them all up. lol. Imagine, one fair gets ya from Texas to NY.

Has Amtrak gone out of business yet ?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP
I thought I was the only one that watched the stuf on Discovery and TLC...

My 2 favorite channels... now that I watch regular primetime programming on my computer after download. There aren't many, so...

The one about the tunnel between France and NYC is supposed to come on today at 9/8 central


Extreme Engineering
Transatlantic Tunnel
60 min.
Examining the potential of intercontinental rail travel that would incorporate floating tunnels with 300mph magnetically levitated trains travelling between Newfoundland and Scotland. (VCR Plus+ 194871)

I'm not so sure I'd trust my life to magnetic levitation...

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: jagr10 They should make one across the US. Each state makes one and then they connect them all up. lol. Imagine, one fair gets ya from Texas to NY.

Has Amtrak gone out of business yet ?

amtrak will never go out of business - it get's bailout after bailout, sort of like welfare checks

i heard about this. supposedly, they are in train building frenzy since 9/11 (rebuilding frenzy)!! in a way it's cool b/c nyc will have top notch stuff for the next 25+ years.

big dig <-- the biggest mess Boston EVAR created. for the cost of that, you can build two big digs...

 

[Moonbeam]

It's 800 feet below ground - not 800 feet long.
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Who wants to take a train 800 feet down. Everybody would fall to the front of the car. An elevator would be better.