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...State’s best-known thoroughfare—cars whizzing past on both sides, their drivers tossing cigarette butts and empty Pringles cans out their open windows—is one of the sad neglected spaces that permeate America’s highways: the median of the Pike. The meager, desolate territory may be known to few and loved by none—but if one turnpike administrator has his way, all that could change...
...familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie that is the Pike...
There is much to admire in Amorello’s Quixotic fancy. Countless men and women drive down the Pike every day, scarcely glancing at the humble spit that separates them from their mirror-image twins making the same journey in reverse. Amorello looked at that same sight and saw what no other could: prime real estate. One man, one vision, one rail—gravity’s just bringing us down, baby...
...median may seem, it is hardly ideal in practical terms—a magnetic express along the same route as the existing highway would be of little use without branches connecting to suburban communities, and those branches would take yet more land and money. Even worse, the Pike delays that would be necessary for the monorail’s construction would be devastating—just ask commuters on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, who suffered for years during the construction of an “AirTrain” to John F. Kennedy International Airport. (Kennedy...
...aware of any major decisions that have come down the pike one way or another,” he adds...