From: joekor@earthlink.net   
      
   On 2/17/2015 5:36 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 5:08:58 PM UTC-5, John Albert wrote:   
   >   
   >> If you don't want any more grade crossing accidents to ever happen again   
   >> at this particular crossing, build a grade separation.   
   >   
   > They've know this for decades.  Unfortunately, grade separation projects are   
   extremely expensive and disruptive.  I don't know how the LIRR managed to do   
   them in the 1950s and 1960s or who paid for them.  Likewise with SIRT.    
   Perhaps back in the 1950s    
   there was less red tape and opposition to property acquisition and building   
   demolition than there is today.  Moses may have been involved and of course he   
   wouldn't tolerate any delay.   
   >   
   >   
      
   As I remember hearing the Staten Island (SIRT) grade crossing   
   elimination began before WWII.  It only got about half way before the   
   war.  Shoe-fly tracks were built parallel to the the at grade tracks and   
   lasted until the 1970s.  The TA took control of SIRT some time after   
   1972.  I had just started work there and one of the fellows in my   
   department was still working on the take over.   
      
   This photo is near Jefferson Ave, where the "new" line transitions from   
   embankment to open cut:   
      
   http://www.thejoekorner.com/photos/nycmetro/1410013.gif   
      
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