Does it seem odd to anyone else that this plan seems to pretend northern NJ doesn't exist? It would make much more sense to me to make the "triboro" a full-circle rather than a half-circle. If you look at underground map of London you don't see any half-circles.
We did manage to get the world's most expensive and amazing $2bn open atrium shopping mall on that site. And for just a few bucks more we could have had a direct rail connection potentially stretching all the way from Grand Central to Newark Airport. Oh well.
This and the rest of the subway system. It kind of hilarious looking at that map and seeing a dense web of subway lines with none of them going to New Jersey.
I'm guessing this is because the administrative boundary means there's no incentive for New York governance to do anything to benefit New Jersey?
