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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Many thanks to the BusTalk member who pointed me to Mary Shapiro's book, "A Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge," which I found in a public library. I was trying to explain how Fred Zuhmuhlen's work of 1950 extended the box from just covering the trolley tracks to covering the widened 3-lane roadway. On page 119, photo 165 looks towards Brooklyn during reconstruction. The view shows the remaining Brooklyn-bound track meeting the box of the new roadway. On the north side Brooklyn-bound traffic flows, including a small bus. The box there surrounds only the trolley track.
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I am neither engineer nor architect, so my language, especially the term "box," may be misleading. Trusswork may be the more important consideration. There was trusswork either side of the el tracks, the trusswork between which the trolleys ran from 1944 to 1950. One line of trusswork had to be repositioned in each direction to allow for the three traffic lanes. I presume they first had to construct the new trusswork on the outside of the roadway before removing the old trusswork between the streetcars and vehicular traffic. After all, trusswork with its triangles stiffens the bridge and (I presume) provides support for the underlying steel floor beams, which this book shows as having trapazoidal elements.
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Nowadays, one drives an automobile through a three-lane box. However, I now realize that the trusses to the right and left of the roadways are the more important element. In each direction, one row of trusses in each direction had to be replaced by trusses on the edge of the bridge. That is the work that took several years after 1950.
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On May 24, 1973, vehicles were forbidden for the day. Page 120 of Shapiro's book has a good look at the trusswork one sees from the roadway. |
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