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Brooklyn & Queens Surface Transit Service Study

 
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2014 6:54 pm    Post subject: Brooklyn & Queens Surface Transit Service Study Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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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