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"The Interborough Express, a passenger rail line that would connect New York
City’s most populous boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens, without entering Manhattan,
could finally become a reality. This tree-lined path, seen from Borough Park in
Brooklyn, would be its future home.
The 14-mile route of the so-called IBX is expected to make 19 stops along an
active freight line — through lush greenery, dark tunnels and gritty industrial
areas — to connect neglected swaths of the city with few transit options. The
fare would cost the same as a subway ride, and the entire trip would take less
than 40 minutes. Construction could be completed by early next decade.
The line would be the biggest rail expansion in New York City since the
crosstown G subway line (formerly the GG) was built in the 1930s. And it could
trigger a building boom in one of the last underdeveloped stretches in a city
bursting with 8.5 million people.
To preview the line and its transformative potential, two
New York Times
reporters and a videographer boarded a freight train that uses the commercial
corridor, a 19th-century route that still carries lumber, beer and other cargo.
The team affixed cameras to the front of the locomotive."
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