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Re: Former Bx3, now Bx17, on Prospect Ave. |
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Posted by Joe on Mon Jun 1 14:24:00 2015, in response to Re: Former Bx3, now Bx17, on Prospect Ave., posted by Joe on Mon Jun 1 10:09:14 2015. A bit off-thread, but I must clarify that it was the Office of Defense Transportation that ordered the cessation of some bus services that had proliferated during the Second World War. The context seems to be that individual apartment houses or clusters thereof were hiring private carriers to bring people to their jobs, and the ODT judged that the riders should walk to rail service. Rail used coal or electricity made from coal, not petroleum. Buses used gasoline and rubber, commodities that more suffered wartime shortages.--- The New York Times of March 12, 1943, ran an article headlined "Apartment Buses Face Shut-Down." It lists Club Transportation as a provider of duplicative services in Riverdale (and apparently Westchester) and gives a rebuttal from Club's president, J. H. Pansky. Surface Transportation also was told to cut back on services where people could walk to a train, but strangely a year later, when ODT relented and instructed Surface to resume service, Surface asked the PSC to allow them to refuse! In Queens, Malba and some Rockaway locations had bus service banned by the ODT. |
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