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Posted by Larry,RedbirdR33 on Wed Jun 12 10:29:46 2013, in response to Why there are few off-street terminals in NYC?, posted by RiverLINE3501 on Tue Jun 11 19:47:33 2013. In my many years of transit fanning, I noticed that there are few subway-bus terminals in NYC, in fact, they are very rare. I'At one time there were many. Greyhound maintained its own terminal at 34 Street that lasted into the early sixties if I remember correctly. There were two off-street airlines terminals for the Carey buses. Before the PABT was built the Hotel Dixie (today's Hotel Carter)had a bus terminal in the basement with a turntable and twelve loading bays. The turntable is still there today and visible from the street. The problem was traffic congestion caused by so many buses. This led to the building of the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the George Washington Bridge Bus Station. In Manhattan and The Bronx the rapid transit and surface transit lines were owned by separate companies so there wasn't much incentive to build join terminals. The situation in Brooklyn was a little better were almost all the traction lines were owned by the BRT/BMT. One very interesting example of this was the 65 Street Terminal of the BRT Fifth Avenue Elevated Line. The was a ramp from the el structure down to the street that allowed trolleys to rise to the level of the el platform. It was in use from 1903 to 1919. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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