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Posted by Joe on Sat Jun 3 20:43:01 2017, in response to GW Bridge buses in early years, posted by Joe on Sat May 20 18:55:54 2017. The GW Bridge was open only a year and a half by the time the Port Authority asked for bids on the construction of waiting stations with shelters, one at Fort Lee, one on Washington Heights. The N. Y. Times of May 24, 1933, ran a story under these headlines: Washington Span to Have 2 Stations; Port Authority opens bids for bus passenger shelters to be ready July 15.The New York shelter would measure 37 by 17 feet and be located on the sidewalk space in the center of the plaza between Fort Washington Avenue and [interrupted] Pinehurst Avenue. That is, passengers would walk across 179th Street to get to the shelter in the plaza. As westbound bridge traffic, including buses, have already swerved to reach the plaza, I presume that traffic on 179th Street there would be minimal. --- The Fort Lee shelter would measure 18 feet square and be east of Hudson Street. It may be the small building shown in the Getty Images photo I linked in my May 27th post. --- The Times article said that 96,665 bus passengers were carried between Fort Lee and Manhattan in the first four months of 1933. That appears to be 800 daily, or perhaps 400 each direction. Please recall that this is during a Depression. Link for subscribers of NY Times: |
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