Rochester's Abandoned Subway

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I hate it down there- in the tunnels- it is just too creepy!
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Wow, I never knew Rochester ever had a subway. Those links were cool. Buffalo once had a subway. oh..... wait..... it's still there but nobody uses it... and it doesn't go anywhere.
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becky was hanging out there during the vampire years
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I'd go down there, but I have something against getting stabbed by a hobo.
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there's really a lot of interesting history around here in terms of geography and construction of stuff like the subway...it's all great reading about a subway in rochester, but did you know about these:

when the erie canal was built, the Eastern Wide Waters were included, which was a small lake/pond right were Cobb's Hill Park is...it used to be completely covered in water

490 east of downtown used to be the outside tracks for the subway

the original 390 proposal used to go from PA all the way up through brighton and the southwedge neighborhood and connect with the inner loop on the east bank of the river (that's why there are 2 exits for the same purpose currently - because one was intended for a 390 southbound direction)

the 204 expressway extension was originally meant to go straight through to the airport parking lot

Ridge Road is termed this because this used to be the Ridge that was the original coast of Lake Ontario

the mount morris dam was built because south rochester used to completely flood, including genesee street, geneseo valley park, and the brooks landing area, not to mention most of upper livingston county

the genesee valley canal was built alongside the genesee river from just south of upper falls (where the erie canal originally crossed the river) south past letchworth and west to olean

the concrete slabs left at stony brook in the creek was the base for a wooden railroad bridge that took area tourists and visitors over the creek...in the late 1800s, stony brook was a HUGE tourist area and railroad was the usual means of touring the area
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the genesee valley canal was built alongside the genesee river from just south of upper falls (where the erie canal originally crossed the river) south past letchworth and west to olean
If you hike along the Letchworth spur of the Finger Lakes Trail near the upper falls in the park, the trail follows the old railroad grade that went alongside this canal. In some places the canal is actually still there. It's just a long algae coated swampy trench today. It was quite an engineering marvel for its time since they had to blast the cliffside for a path to run the canal and railroad through.

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That's the Greenway Trail #7, which is one of the hidden treasures of Letchworth.

Tim you would have loved the Environmental engineering and geology class I took in college, since a lot of that was covered.

The Ridge Rd thing is half acurate... the lake boundary was not up to Ridge, but before the MT Morris Dam, the lake certainly flooded the area seasonally--- it was originally all wetlands! the dam is crucial from keeping Rochester dry. We left some wetlands in Greece (the ponds) but since gotten rid of most of them.

Here's another one that's pretty shocking: Irondequoit Bay used to be the natural outlet for the genesee river.
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