Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rry-its full quota of the traffic. The striking feature of the Man-hattan Bridge is the adaptability of its location for handlingpractically all the train service of the elevated railwaysystem of Brooklyn, except the Broadway line, should itbe required to do so. With the building of a small amountof connecting elevated structure this bridge will be ableto serve the Myrtle Avenue, the Lexington Avenue, theFulton Street and the Fifth Avenue elevated lines withtheir several suburban connections. Its completion will markthe time of the first real relief to the congestion of trafficon the present bridge. If the municipal authorities buildwisely upon the knowledge that this bridge is destined to be-come the greatest single artery of travel between Brooklynand Manhattan there will be ample provision made on botlisides of the river for wide avenues of approach and their de-votion, not to the setting out of flower beds and grass plots,but to the single purpose of facilitating interborough com-
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-co- Street RaHwaij Juut CROSS-SECTION OF BLACKWELLS ISLAND BRIDGI munication by trolley car and elevated train. At the Man-hattan terminal there should be a most comprehensive plan forthe distribution and collection of the traffic by means of sub-ways or elevated structures. There should be, as one of theconnections of this bridge, a crosstown line over or underCanal Street to West Street, connecting with all the north andsouth lines, and these connections should be made one of theimportant features of the operation. But the principal distrib-uting agency of this bridge should be a subway which will besufficiently commodious to take the passengers by trolley carand elevated train direct to the Wall Street district. When thepeople of Brooklyn awake to the fact that this bridge meansmore to their city from a rapid transit standpoint than anyother single factor there will be a demand that no narrow orniggardly policy be pursued in enabling the transportation linesto use it to the full c

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