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Posted by MELLOW ONE on Mon Oct 24 14:24:10 2011, in response to Re: Lexington Ave. el & Pratt Institute campus, posted by 3-9 on Mon Oct 24 12:46:02 2011. The Sands St Elevated RR Terminal was eventually superceded by the IRT and BRT/BMT Subway Station complex under Flatbush Ave. The BMT had complete rapid transit control of the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges. The Brooklyn Bridge was limited to the Elevated RR traffic. The Manhattan Bridge was built for subway traffic. The Williamsburg bridge was also built for subway traffic, although the Broadway El operated into a Manhattan Subway loop initially. The Broadway Williamsburg Bridge traffic offered an alternative to enter Manhattan from downtown Brooklyn, the Sands St Terminal.Once the BRT/BMT had other destinations in Manhattan other than Park Row, the rapid transit traffic of a growing population shifted to the subway routes, especially, after WWI, when the Dual Contracts linked some of the El routes to the subway. The Fourth Ave Subway initially made the 5th and 3rd Ave Els redundant and after the Dual contracts, the Sea Beach, West End and Culver lines were all improved and linked to the 4th Ave Subway, which substantially reduced the amount of El traffic to the Sands St Terminal upper loop. So, the El routes from downtown Brooklyn East had the most utility, the Fulton, Myrtle and Lexington Ave Lines went to East NY and branched out from there. The Lexington Ave route offered the East NY destination to the Myrtle Ave El. The Northern part of the Myrtle Ave El became part of the Dual Contract improvements and was linked to the Broadway El, which also reduced some downtown Brooklyn traffic on the Myrtle Ave El. |
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