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Posted by randyo on Sat Jul 27 01:42:54 2024, in response to Re: Bergen Cutoff, posted by r17-6599 on Fri Jul 26 09:13:24 2024. Actually, that was probably one of Mayor Hylan’s plans when the IND concourse Line was planned. Although eh really didn’t have the same animosity towards the IRT as he did to the BRT/BMT he still wanted as many of the private company lines removed as possible. While he probably couldn’t realistically shut down the subway lines, he wanted as many of the elevated lines as possible removed and replaced by subway lines either directly or as closely as possible. In Manhattan that was relatively easy since the 6th and 9th Ave els were replaced by the 67th and 8th Ave subways. In Bkln, the entire Fulton St el was almost completely duplicated mile for mile by the IND Fulton St Line. Even the eventual takeover of the Culver el and outer portion of the Fulton St el were in the IND’s master plan from the beginning. Of course after unification, some of the proposed IND subway lines were deferred since they would have duplicated many of the existing IRT and BMT els and since the city now had ownership of them removing them and going to the expense of replacing them didn’t seem as important. |
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