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Re: Program For Mass Transit 1968. |
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Posted by randyo on Mon May 10 00:43:53 2021, in response to Re: Program For Mass Transit 1968., posted by Jsun21 on Sun May 9 23:09:10 2021. That is a problem with using letters to identify trains on a system as large as ours. Prior to the actual opening of the IND when the BMT was offered the opportunity to run the new lines, it was intended to continue the BMT’s numbering system as a photo of an R-1 mockup shows. With no merger of the BMT and IND though of in 1932, it made prefect sense to use a completely new ID system for IND trains. Now with a full merger of the BMT and IND and most completely new lines being on those divisions, it would actually make more sense to rebadge the lines using numbers for BMT/IND routes and letters for the IRT since there is almost no chance of any completely new IRT routes being built. One thing that I did notice on that map which I made made reference to in some of my posts, is instead of the SAS taking over the IRT Pelham Line, the Bronx service pattern had been modified so that the in addition to taking over the Dyre Ave Lina as was alway planned, the SAS would now branch off the the White Pl Rd line at E180 St and leave Pelham with the IRT. Another intersting thing I noticed on that map is that a Fulton St Lcl service which was proposed was shown as only operating as far as Hoyt presumably using Court St to relay rather than having the line operate in passenger service all the way into Court which would make more sensed considering the recent downtown Bkln development. |
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