Identifier: electricrailway551920newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Brooklyn RapidTransit system, finding that a 2-cent transfer charge didnot afford sufficient relief, was broken up into several ofthe underlying companies on Oct. 18, 1919. Rental andintertrackage agreements that had stood for a genera- routes, which tend to parallel rather than overlap thecar lines, will be better understood by the reader if hewill refer to the partial map of the Borough of Brooklynon page 1091 and then consider that under the full-fledged trolley system a single 5-cent fare carried thepassenger from any part of the borough to any otherpart of the borough or over the bridges to Manhattan.The chief of the few exceptions was the 10-cent fare toConey Island, and even in this instance the residents ofthe Isle of Pleasure long enjoyed a 5-cent fare on week-days. A list of the routes follows: Route No. 2, Coney Island line, 1.5 miles, opened Oct 24, 1919.Route No. 3, Greenpoint line, 3 miles, opened Oct. 27, 1919.Route No. 4, Park Slope line, 4 miles, opened Oct. 27, 1919.
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BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, SHOWING JITNEY BUSROUTES PERMITTED BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK Route No. 5, Bay Ridge line, 3.25 miles, opened Nov. 3, 1919, andquit Nov. 12, 1919, because of poor business (not shown on map). Route No. 6. Bushwick-Lafayette line, 3 miles, opened Nov. 3,1919. Route No. 7, Bedford-Hanson Place line, 3 miles, opened Nov. 3,1919, and quit Nov. 7, 1919, because of better pickings elsewhere. Route No. 9, Borough Hall via Flatbush Avenue to Nostrand Ave-nue, opened Dec. 15, 1919, 4.5 miles (approximately). No one has manifested an avid desire to run on theproposed Route No. 8, Atlantic and Flatbush Avenuesto Atkins Street and Atlantic Avenue, also a distance of5 miles. Most of the riders on Route 9, also, go nofurther than the Atlantic Avenue subway station (ap-proximately 4 miles). Although in competition with theFlatbush Avenue car route, a detour is made via Wash-ington Avenue to avoid the bad paving along ProspectPark. Route No. 1 was a bus route which replaced Man- ti

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