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Posted by Larry,RedbirdR33 on Fri Jan 21 11:36:42 2011, in response to Re: Sea Beach, Culver, Brighton, posted by Howard Fein on Fri Jan 21 10:53:07 2011. In 1954 and 1956, the BMT Culver and Liberty els respectively became IND routes.You're right about that. Its hard to think of the IND Liberty Avenue Line as what it was built as, the BMT Fulton Street El. After 1956 we had had two Culver Lines, an IND one south of Ditmas Avenue and a BMT one west of there. The biggest mistake I believe was routing the primary Brighton service up 6th Avenue and the local service up Nassau Street. The Brighton Line had the heaviest traffic of the four Coney Island routes and the Broadway subway offered good distribution in Manhattan and convenient tranfer points to the East and West Side IRT Lines. Sending the local trains up Nassau Street made no one happy. Then as now Nassau Street, while important was something of a transit backwater if you were coming from the Southern Division. It would have been better to keep send the bulk of the Brighton Local up Broadway and serve Nassau Street with for or five trains instead of the reverse. Of course thats all water under the Brooklyn Bridge now. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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