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Posted by Joe on Fri Jul 10 20:44:46 2015, in response to Re: Bx11, 170th Street Crosstown, posted by Asgard on Thu Jul 9 12:33:48 2015. Thanks, Asgard, for the direction of possible future research.--- As the 170th Street Crosstown is one of the twelve routes Surface Transportation took over in late 1927, I presume it was one of the "emergency" Plant and Buildings routes John Hylan encouraged. Some of those routes were feeder routes, serving new residential areas and bringing people to rapid transit. The 170th Street Crosstown may have been designed at first to compete with TARS crosstown streetcars, namely the 167th Street Crosstown. However, with the 1920's construction of dense Bronx apartment houses, I see the Bx11 as serving people who needed service: 1) People in Highbridge could take the Ogden Avenue streetcar to shop in Washington Heights. However, as that streetcar returned to Manhattan on 155th Street, it did not connect Highbridge residents with the Jerome Avenue Interborough service (Lex and el), nor did the streetcar bring Highbridge people to the 170th Street business district, which continues to thrive. 2) The topography of The Bronx creates some big gaps in crosstown routes, and the Bx11 helped fill one such gap. At the Grand Concourse, the distance between the X-167th St. Crosstown trolley and the Z streetcar on East Tremont Avenue (yes, the Z, not the T here) is 1.2 miles. 3) The streetcar routes already jiggled a bit when they reached Webster Ave., the 167th moving to 168th, and the Z and T swapping streets (Z, now Bx36: Tremont to 180th; T, now Bx40/42: Burnside to Tremont). No wonder that the 170th Street Crosstown bus angles down a hill into Webster and takes Claremont Parkway as its crosstown thoroughfare. |
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