>>1968368That's because you have railfan-tier autism (though if you were a REAL railfan you'd know about the fort george funicular)
The original post was talking about a *hypothetical* route for a street car line that does not exist. Given the free license to imagine an alternate world that is not our own, I described a system that included a funicular that would have been built to handle one of the steeper surface routes in the 5 boroughs namely fort george hill (which currently has a subway line erupting from its base but no surface rail). The other options would be to run the street car down broadway which it could probably handle. But that's getting into the redundancy department because there's already an A train and a 1 train. So you could run it up and down the east river but that's kinda useless until dyckman. And you could run it up and down the hudson river but (a) there's already a train there that does nothing for local traffic (I know I know local traffic is icky cripples and olds and they should all be exterminated, humor me here for a minute) and (b) even if it was free to build, what's it going to do? Shuttle people between inwood park and whatever fairway is now?
So it seems to me running it up like st nick to amsterdam and then up amsterdam to fort george hill makes the most sense but what do I know I'm not an ivy league mathematician with suspicious motives
