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Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1769 Location: Central NJ
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 6:54 pm Post subject: Brooklyn & Queens Surface Transit Service Study |
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The following link takes you to a Brooklyn & Queens surface transit service study conducted in 1940 by the BMT, the transit "holding company" whose subsidiaries Brooklyn & Queens Transit and Brooklyn Bus Corp. operated streetcars and buses, respectively, in both boroughs prior to unification by the NYC Board of Transportation in that same year:
http://www.bmt-lines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/BQT-Study.pdf |
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BrooklynBus
Age: 74 Joined: 19 Aug 2007 Posts: 135 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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I don't understand. The report says there were only 9 gas bus routes in Brooklyn in 1940. Most of these no longer exist. There were at least 20 more gas bus routes operated by the BMT in 1940 that are not included. Why? |
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Hart Bus
Age: 74 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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BrooklynBus wrote: | I don't understand. The report says there were only 9 gas bus routes in Brooklyn in 1940. Most of these no longer exist. There were at least 20 more gas bus routes operated by the BMT in 1940 that are not included. Why? |
You're asking why on a report that is 74 years old? Perhaps you should contact the authors, but I doubt any of them are alive today. Other than sending an e-mail to www.bmt-lines.com and getting an answer from them, you'll have to consign your question to another one of history's mysteries! |
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ripta42 Site Admin
Age: 45 Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 1035 Location: Pawtucket, RI / Woburn, MA
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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The report is suggesting conversion of 9 more streetcar routes to gas buses (and 12 to trackless). Note that the number of vehicles in the table on page 2 are "in addition to the 308 gas buses and 8 trolley buses now operated in the Borough of Brooklyn." |
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