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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for March 1 |
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Posted by W.B. on Thu Mar 2 01:58:03 2017, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for March 1, posted by northshore on Wed Mar 1 11:47:29 2017. By the time bus traffic through Washington Square was banned by the city effective Sept. 2, 1963, only three ex-FACCO routes terminated there: the 2, 3 and 5. Their initial terminus afterwards was 8th Street between Fifth and University Place, turning there onto 9th Street and then back to Fifth. This only lasted till Nov. 10, 1963 (the day Sixth Avenue south of Herald Square became one way northbound, and Broadway between Herald Square and Canal Street one way southbound), when 2 and 3's terminus was moved to 8th Street and Fourth Avenue, and the 5 was moved all the way to Houston Street and West Broadway - leading to its traveling through East 8th and Broadway southbound, and Sixth Avenue and West 8th northbound.Route 1 didn't return to Fifth Avenue until the Jan. 14, 1966 conversion of Fifth Avenue to one way northbound and Madison Avenue to one way southbound - after which ex-NYCO route 1's southbound path was rerouted to Fifth between 135th and 40th Streets. This was the reverse of the 2 where ITS northbound route was changed to Madison, the only remnant of NYCO's 2. (On that same 1966 day, the 5's northbound route up to its turning at 57th Street was switched to the rest of Sixth Avenue.) |
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