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Re: Assemblyman Dinowitz (Bronx) asks for paper transfers {cutback on Bx20} |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Jul 11 12:56:19 2010, in response to Re: Assemblyman Dinowitz (Bronx) asks for paper transfers {cutback on Bx20}, posted by New Flyer #857 on Sat Jul 10 20:54:11 2010. In the 70's except for Manhattan and the Bronx where bus transfers were mostly eliminated in 1962, you could transfer for free between buses at approximately 50% of the locations. I actually mapped all of them for Brooklyn for my Master's thesis. I can try to scan the page when I get a chance if you are interested. Everything couldn't be mapped exactly so there are some approximations.Regarding third transfers, there were many. Whenever any route was shortened, a third transfer existed usually obtained when handing the driver a transfer. Some were obtained as you left the bus e.g. at Williamsburg Plaza. In the 30's many trolley routes were extended to Coney Island for summers only such as some B52s which operated via Gates, Franklin, Ocean Avenue, Parkside and Coney Island Avenue. I believe during other times of the year you could still make the trip for one fare by picking up and giving the drivers transfers. I once figured out that the most number of buses you could take for a single fare was 14. Sounds great until you realize that many two bus trips such as the B35 to the B46 required two fares. Add-a-rides were used starting in about the 1980s at those locations where you paid one and a half fares instead of getting a free transfer, rounded down to the nearest nickel. Remember the term fare deal" but not what it stood for. There were othe discounts also like "Night on the Town" in Midtown Manhattan. Think that was 75 cents for unlimited trsnfers between 7 and 10 PM. Believe the fare was 20 cents then, so it wasn't a bargain. |
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