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Subway construction

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Queensboro Subway Extension

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Flushing Extension

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  • Revised plan crossovers 5th Avenue temporary terminal

Fort Hamilton Extension

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Fourteenth Street-Eastern Line

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  • Modification-crossover addition to permit partial operation, ramp to LIRR yard

Nassau Street Line

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Dual Operations in Queens

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  • Studies, switchback track

Station facilities

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  • BMT lengthening
  • Some work IRT 10-cars
  • 96th Street mezzanine at 94th Street
  • Yankee Stadium stairways
  • Additional entrances NE/SE corners Canal and Centre Streets
  • Lawrence Street station
  • 168th Street elevators
  • Additional mezzanine southern end Wall Street/William Street
  • Drawings Williamsburg Bridge Plaza station
  • Waiting rooms northbound platforms-passengers waiting to change trains Kingsbridge Road, 219th Street
  • Improve Dyckman Street entrance
  • Lengthening Pennsylvania station
  • Platform extension Jackson Avenue station
  • New entrances Grand Central, building openings
  • Passageway Union Square
  • Lengthening platforms Canal Street
  • Waterproofing track floors over mezzanines-White Plains Road, Jerome Avenue
  • Telephone installation
  • Entrances constructed through private property
    • NE corner of 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue
    • SE corner of Fulton Street and Broadway
    • 501 Fulton Street-Brooklyn
    • 571 Fulton Street and 32 DeKalb Avenue-Brooklyn
  • Standardization of signs
  • Transformer closets for emergency lighting
  • New entrance to Borough Hall station
  • Escalator well construction-Park Place, Borough Hall
  • New double crossover north of Times Square-Broadway Line

Yards

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  • Inspection shed Jerome Avenue Yard, 180th Street Yard
  • Studies 239th Street Yard
  • Siting of Westchester Avenue Yard
  • Addition Lenox Avenue shops
  • Coney Island Yard drawings

Miscellaneous

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  • Newsstands
  • Temporary facilities Queensboro Plaza
  • Bridge over South Brooklyn Railway
  • Emergency lighting
  • Widening 60th Street, 52nd Street, 57th Street, 22nd Street, Canal Street
  • Ventilation exhaust chamber Broadway, fan chamber connection Times Square
  • Removal of rock reef over Whitehall-Montague Street Tubes
  • Raising street grade, Long Island City
  • New automatic turnstile
  • New electrical substation Roosevelt Avenue, Queens
  • Equipping all cars with multiple door control
  • Installation of ventilating equipment-deep level subway sections
  • Block signals-elevated lines
  • Substituting steel cars for wooden equipment on elevateds
  • IRT trailer cars
  • Signage emergency exits-deep stations
  • Experimental signal-key-by West End Line 38th Street
  • Ventilating equipment Broadway Line
  • Signal changes-improvement signal tower installations-train indication system
  • 50 new steel trailer cars
  • Changes 60-wooden cars for use in Queens

Studies

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  • Strength of Jamaica Line elevated structure for steel subway cars
  • Proposed IRT improvements, i.e. express station Columbus Circle, 23rd Street, improvements at 96th Street, 137th Street loop
  • Replacement stairways 33rd/6th with entrances through Gimbel's and Saks'
  • Relieve congestion Grand Central-railing study-capacity-bottleneck
  • Extension to Yonkers-Putnam Division
  • Increased power capacity
  • Connection-Myrtle Avenue El and Fourth Avenue subway-study-change Bridge Street elevated
  • Study-power supply 14th Street Line
  • Recommendation use excess ducts under-river tunnel-telephone cables
  • Strengthening existing elevated lines Brooklyn
  • Moving platform-42nd Street-replace shuttle
  • Additional facilities for LIRR at Pennsylvania station
  • Automatic protection-surface cars-steep grades in NYC

Surveys

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  • Straightening 157th Street entrances
  • Lengthening platforms
  • Northern portion of Route 78 St. Nicholas Avenue, including tentative station location
  • Brooklyn Crosstown Line Routes 70-B and 70-A-1, including tentative station location
  • Eighth Avenue-Amsterdam Avenue Line
  • Lafayette Avenue Line
  • Sewer design
  • Preliminary surveys Westchester Avenue Storage yard
  • Borings for Flushing extension, Coney Island Yard, Westchester Yard, Central Park West

Proposed lines

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Parkway Rapid Transit Line

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Route 70-A – Jackson Avenue, Newtown Creek and Manhattan Avenue Route

Route 70-A-1 – North Jane Street, Jackson Avenue, Newtown Creek and Manhattan Avenue Route

Route 70-B – Manhattan Avenue, Roebling Street and Bedford Avenue Route

Route 70-C – Bedford Avenue, Fulton Street and Livingston Street Route

Route 70-D — Bedford Avenue-Brighton Beach Railway Connection

Route 70-C-1 – Bedford Avenue, Fulton Street and Livingston Street Route, Revised

Route 75-F – Eighth Avenue Route, 30th Street to 59th Street

Route 76 – Lafayette Avenue Route – Bedford Avenue to Flatbush Avenue

Route 78 – Central Park West, Manhattan Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue Route

Route 78-A – St. Nicholas Avenue, Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue

Route 78-B – Central Park, Eighth Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue Route

Route 78-C – Fort Washington Avenue Route, 175th Street to Overlook Terrace

Route 79 – Broadway, Columbus Avenue and Manhattan Avenue Route 59th Street to 114th Street

Route 79-A – Seventh Avenue-Broadway Connection 59th Street and Seventh Avenue to 61st Street and Broadway

Traffic changes

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Capitalization/securities

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Tariffs

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Accidents

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Power

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Financial condition of street railroad companies

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Grade Crossing eliminations

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NYC West Side Line

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Litigation

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Omnibus situation

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Increased service

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Reduction wood cars Jamaica El

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Reorganization Brighton Line service-referendum

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Petition denied request reduce service IRT

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Request-purchase new cars

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LIRR, surface line new cars

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Through-service Pelham Line Sundays-May 27th

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Additional train late night Jerome Avenue

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2 additional Saturday night Brooklyn express West Side line

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Increased Third Avenue el express service

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Improved elevated facilities

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Extension 9th Avenue el express service

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Midday through-service Queens line elevated

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Rerouting trains steel car to Broadway Line from Lexington Avenue Line

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Increases-Sea Beach, Fulton Street, West End, Brighton, Fourth Avenue

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Dual service Queens

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Indicated points-train stops-Broadway Line

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Additional transfer provisions Brooklyn surface

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Service extensions, new Vanderbilt Avenue line short-line service

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Reconstructed trailer cars-motorcars

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New 14th Street service

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Additional service 59th Street

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Eighth Avenue Railroad new barn

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Tremont Avenue crosstown extension

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Extension Boston Road Line

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Rerouted Jamaica-College Point line-connection-subway

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Corona Line-extended College Point rush hours

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New short-line service Jamaica line

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New one-person cars in service

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Double tracking, increased service-Ocean Electric Railway Company

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Moving zone point-Manhattan andQueens Traction, extension Jamaica

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LIRR-increased service-25 cars-Rockaway Division/Far Rockaway Division

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40 cars-rush hour-Flatbush Avenue, Penn Station

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Additional stops Frank Avenue, St. Albans

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Increases New Haven Line-all-night service

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Shelters-added exit platforms three SIRT stations

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Property acquisition

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Platform extensions

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Jackson Avenue Station Lengthening

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