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The MTA opened its new South Ferry station in March.

Second Ave Sagas has neat pictures of the reconstruction of my old home station, 96th Street on the 1/2/3. This is the last northbound transfer and first southbound transfer between the 1 local (Broadway) and the 2/3 express (Lenox Ave) and is very heavily trafficked. For a long time, it has been a dark dungeon [...]

I’ve long been interested in the application of roller coaster structural technology to mass transit engineering. Roller coasters (the tubular kind) are lightweight, relatively cheap, work well under stress, and are extremely flexible in terms of track radius and where they can be installed.
Looks like I’m not the only one who has had this thought—a [...]